Azed Competition No. 165 Azed Slip | ◀ 161 | 169 ▶ | Other competitions | 
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ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 165 | May 1975 | Lance, pompano, bonito, porbeagle, thornback, menhaden, albacore, huso | Anagram | 29 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | Dr G. B. Greer | People can catch ‘em, hook ‘em, one and all, using a net, bob, barb, or harpoon | |
| Second | P. Drummond | Each booboo planned. Untangle a marine troop. Chambers’ book can help | |
| Third | G. H. Clarke | Oh help! Benn on B.B.C. shook me! Anagram dealt boon – a real preoccupation | |
| VHC | R. Abrey | Bombard back-bencher, a palaeontological phenomenon (Eoanthropus) | |
| VHC | G. Aspin | Phenomenal ocean scrabble to bring me honour and poach a book plate? | |
| VHC | F. D. H. Atkinson | Launched on anagram alone, hopes ebb. Pro bono meo catch pink bloater! | |
| VHC | M. J. Balfour | To pooh-pooh Callaghan in European market, comrade Benn nobbles B.A.C | |
| VHC | C. O. Butcher | An anagram can be a pronounced problem – a shibboleth to help cook one | |
| VHC | R. S. Caffyn | Problem can take age… No, no – probable hunch, amenable, too… Ah, coin drops! | |
| VHC | R. O. Calder | Problem:– To do anagram chaos. One hint:– No U.K. ocean can be probable help | |
| VHC | M. Coates | ‘Ombrophobous’, ‘ancon’ and anagram can help keep bonce lithe or able | |
| VHC | Mrs C. E. Constable | Bandage on poor knee can push a noble compiler to march on at a hobble | |
| VHC | Mrs M. P. Craine | An anagram, eh? O.K. – E.E.C.? A poll – a bold act. On B.B.C. P.M. hopes ‘In’ or hero Benn ‘Out’ | |
| VHC | A. L. Dennis | Can that improbable bore U. Geller make a spoon bend? Oho no! No chap can | |
| VHC | J. R. du Parcq | Go plumb the ocean deep, an A.B. can; / Or look in Chambers (boo!) – another plan | |
| VHC | S. Goldie | Can one harpoon, net, and hook be ample, catching us? A probable bloomer! | |
| VHC | R. H. F. Isham | An angler on a bank, complete in bobble-hat and cape; our composer? Ho, ho! | |
| VHC | A. B. Jones | No paragraph on us? Oh! handbook (bible on ocean realm) can’t be complete | |
| VHC | J. R. Kirby | To them home’s a purple open ocean, cool and babbling reach, or on a bank | |
| VHC | Mrs S. M. Macpherson | An anagram can hobble poor boob like me, and the top cluers can hope on | |
| VHC | D. F. Manley | Keen angler can blab, ‘I made an enormous catch’. Not probable – pooh-pooh | |
| VHC | C. G. Millin | Maroon kippers can’t nobble me – blue cod, an orange loath? Bah! Not a hope | |
| VHC | P. G. O’Gorman | Ombrophobous and ancon – no bookplate. Hell! Anagram can be the recipe | |
| VHC | F. R. Palmer | Hooha (Market debate looming up – Barbara, Benn, H. Scanlon, Co. con people) | |
| VHC | M. L. Perkins | Labour boob: Benn and Callaghan oppose each other on Market – P.M. on ice | |
| VHC | R. G. Rae | One notable band these… no common bag like a loath, pope, chub… nor a parr! | |
| VHC | C. G. Shepherd | A bream, a chub, a pollock or an ablet can be ‘shod’, no? Ponder on phonemes! | |
| VHC | M. D. Speigel | European economic problems bother bank – Callaghan to abandon hope? | |
| VHC | Mrs S. M. Williams | England ban on Europe? Mob can choose. Each mark ballot paper in booth |
HCs in competition 165 awarded to: