Azed Competition No. 1506 Azed Slip | ◀ 1502 | 1511 ▶ | Other competitions | 
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ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1506 | Apr 2001 | BARE(-)BONES | normal | 23 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | N. G. Shippobotham | Obese? Bran flakes for the slimmest outline! | anag. |
| Second | R. Phillips | The elements buffet one lost in the woods | bar + ebon(I)es |
| Third | W. F. Main | Minimum requirements are found in books by anybody with a modicum of sense | are in bb + one + s |
| VHC | M. Barley | Staying in B & B, a person’s getting no more than the basics | are2 in B, B + one’s |
| VHC | J. R. Beresford | With this diet potentially ban outsize beer guts | anag. incl. OS, 2 defs |
| VHC | C. J. Brougham | Meat and cabbage in strips | bone in bares; for meat = gist, cabbage = steal, see Collins |
| VHC | E. J. Burge | Rakes in the past uncovered mortal remains | bare bones |
| VHC | L. J. Davenport | One stabber – not the first in toga – colluding. Very much the likes of ‘yond’ Cassius | anag. less t; ref. Julius Caesar: ‘yond C. has a lean and hungry look’ |
| VHC | N. C. Dexter | We’d little breadth and are persons needing middle of doublet taken in | b in b are ones, & lit. |
| VHC | V. Dixon | Black, little? Drunken, as on beer? They often remain articulate after dissolution | b + anag.; Black, Little, Drunken, all names of parliaments |
| VHC | C. M. Edmunds | Men like Cassius Clay’s ultimate destiny (after boxing?) | 2 mngs.; ref. Julius Caesar; clay = human body |
| VHC | P. D. Gaffey | Beanpoles once bore beans in rotation | anag. |
| VHC | B. Grabowski | Open with a skeleton key | bare bones; key = essence |
| VHC | G. I. L. Grafton | Bottom line in Shakespeare that refers to Starveling and his like | 2 mngs.; ref. MND |
| VHC | R. R. Greenfield | Old rakes seen in strip joints, maybe | bare bones |
| VHC | C. R. Gumbrell | More than one old rake must have been so aroused after undoing of bra | anag. + anag. |
| VHC | F. P. N. Lake | Minimum requirements from Bass are good ales – not half | B are bon (al)es |
| VHC | J. C. Leyland | Queen’s heart captured by beast’s head as Oberon craftily releases love essence | e in anag. incl. b less 0; ref. MND |
| VHC | D. F. Manley | Some like us now fit the AA mould so ban beer to reform | anag.; AA, smallest bra size |
| VHC | T. J. Moorey | What’s borne beans up the wall and new shed? Could be old beanpoles | anag. less n |
| VHC | R. J. Palmer | Nub, and what it’s made of poor thieves | bare bones; nub = gist, gallows |
| VHC | D. A. Simmons | Beanpoles once bore beans up the pole | anag. |
| VHC | D. H. Tompsett | William’s (Hudibrastic?) beanpoles bore beans entwined | anag. |
HCs in competition 1506 awarded to: