Azed Competition No. 1637 Azed Slip | ◀ 1633 | 1641 ▶ | Other competitions | 
ordStats
ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1637 | Oct 2003 | AMNESIC | normal | 26 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | V. Dixon | One may have had minders since subject to recurrent blanks | alternate letters, & lit. |
| Second | R. R. Greenfield | Swizzling in most cases can produce such sots | comp. anag. & lit. |
| Third | D. A. Campbell | He can’t remember last bits of Kubla dream since being disturbed | a m + anag.; ref. Coleridge and the man from Porlock |
| VHC | M. Barley | What nice drop of scrumpy could make you following morning? | am + anag. incl. s, & lit. |
| VHC | M. Bath | Machines without access to high-density floppy may be unable to retrieve information | anag. less h |
| VHC | J. R. Beresford | One beset by an imperfect recollection of names &c | I in anag. + c, & lit. |
| VHC | C. Boyd | Oblivious of history, warmonger regularly struck out thus | alternate letters + sic |
| VHC | Rev Canon C. M. Broun | Needing a reminder in case Fifth of November gets muddled | anag. incl. m; ref. jingle, ‘Remember, remember,…’ |
| VHC | M. Casserley | Forgetful, having overlooked our main course when cooking | anag. less our |
| VHC | J. P. Guiver | Absent minded, retaining only odd snippets, and so forgetful | a + alternate letters + sic, & lit. |
| VHC | C. R. Gumbrell | Answer comes with rendition of second part in playing of fugue | a + anag. less o; rendition = surrender |
| VHC | M. Hodgkin | One whom memories can disturb no more | anag. less more, & lit. |
| VHC | W. Jackson | Uninspired by rosemary? Season mince with a dash of allspice and a pinch of salt | anag. incl. a, s; ref. rosemary for remembrance |
| VHC | Mrs S. D. Johnson | Showing record loss means I can‘t avoid worker being sacked | anag. less ant |
| VHC | J. P. Lester | What EMI scan might reveal of one suffering memory loss | anag. |
| VHC | J. C. Leyland | Machines without hard drives badly lacking memory | anag. less h; drive vi |
| VHC | P. R. Lloyd | Right out of RAM since crashing with faulty memory | (R)AM + anag. |
| VHC | C. G. Millin | Knotted tip of mouchoir in case one forgets | anag. incl. m |
| VHC | C. J. Morse | Qu. What’s unlike elephants? Ans. Mice, silly | anag.; ‘e. never forget’ |
| VHC | F. R. Palmer | Since I am lacking a bit of intellectual ‘works’, about names I get confused | anag. less i, anag. incl. c., & lit. |
| VHC | R. J. Palmer | What one could get from abusing mescalin, losing most central of faculties | anag. less l, & lit. |
| VHC | G. Perry | Who’s likely to forget cinema’s ‘Rocky’? | anag. |
| VHC | R. Phillips | New man, bumbling sice, is no retainer | anag. + anag. |
| VHC | D. Price Jones | Having developed disorder, can memorise no more | anag. less more, & lit. |
| VHC | P. L. Stone | Cessna I’m flying needs seconds to take off, unlike a jumbo | anag. less s; ‘elephants never forget’ |
| VHC | K. Wilson | Strangely, cinemas in this state don’t show Total Recall | anag.; ref A. Schwarzenegger film |
HCs in competition 1637 awarded to: