Azed Competition No. 174 Azed Slip | ◀ 169 | 178 ▶ | Other competitions | 
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ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 174 | Jul 1975 | EPEOLATRY | normal | 24 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | M. Woolf | With parole yet to be arranged, could this mean serving whole sentences? | anag.; serve = worship |
| Second | J. M. Brown | It’s practised weekly by us – people powerless, perhaps, before Azed’s capital test | anag. less P + A + try |
| Third | T. Anderson | It naturally develops early with poet | anag. & lit. |
| VHC | C. Allen Baker | What is indeed manifest in English mystical poetry | la2 in E + anag. |
| VHC | G. Blunden | Profound admiration for a speech’s contents made Peel a Tory | anag.; ref. Robert P. |
| VHC | Mrs M. J. Cansfield | Breaking parole, yet honouring words | anag. |
| VHC | P. Drummond | Your real poet can make it without our idolising his material | anag. less our |
| VHC | J. A. Fincken | Parole has yet to be arranged: words must be honoured for this | anag. |
| VHC | J. Fryde | What a poet early on displays | anag. & lit.; on = tipsy |
| VHC | Dr G. B. Greer | Drunken people render, round a bar piano, words of worship? Quite the reverse | a in anag. less p + try; i.e. worship of words |
| VHC | D. V. Harry | Non-standard bitter’s to be knocked back in record attempt – it avoids slurring of words | aloe (rev.) in EP try; slur = disparage |
| VHC | R. H. F. Isham | The end of mass leaves a proselyte confused, but adoring the language | anag. less s |
| VHC | W. Jackson | Prelate’s flirtation with the limits of orthodoxy could be a form of heresy | anag. incl. o, y |
| VHC | Mrs N. Jarman | What Bunthorne inspired in arty people, unhinged and lacking poise | anag. less p; ref. ‘Patience’ |
| VHC | N. Kemmer | A reply to English getting mutilated? | anag. incl. E, & lit. |
| VHC | P. W. W. Leach | Involving endless prayer to the terms of literature | anag. less r incl. l, e, & lit.; terms = limits |
| VHC | H. W. Massingham | What causes one to repel the end of lexicography? | anag. incl. a + y, & lit. |
| VHC | L. May | Azed’s prime test, applied to people badly wanting first in placings | anag. less p + A + try, & lit. |
| VHC | C. J. Morse | In which – to adapt early poet – ‘words’ are ‘truly hallowed’ | anag.; ref. Henry VIII ii, 3, 68 |
| VHC | F. R. Palmer | It’s an adjunct to the make-up of any real poet | i.e. anag. less an, & lit.; ’s = has; adjunct adj. |
| VHC | R. F. Pardoe | My devotees could make initially unlettered people confused with an effort – so could I | anag. less p + a try |
| VHC | W. K. M. Slimmings | Reverence not lost for words, when you cut short prelate’s broadcast | anag. incl. yo(u) |
| VHC | Brig R. F. E. Stoney | Admiration of words to Player in form after Carnoustie’s tenth | e + anag.; ref. Gary P., golf course |
| VHC | D. C. Williamson | Heresy against Newspeak, presumably, yet a prole freely expresses it | anag.; ref. ‘1984’ |
HCs in competition 174 awarded to: