Azed Competition No. 1893 Azed Slip | ◀ 1888 | 1897 ▶ | Other competitions | 
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ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1893 | Sep 2008 | EARTHY | normal | 24 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | C. Loving | The ‘Carry On’ cast could deliver such corn | comp. anag. & lit. |
| Second | D. F. Manley | The Carry On cast could give you corn that raunchy! | comp. anag. & lit. |
| Third | J. C. Leyland | Sack the charlady leaving every other piece unpolished | anag. of alternate letters |
| VHC | D. Arthur | Vulgar man cultivated dropping aitch | he arty with h dropped |
| VHC | T. C. Borland | Dropping aitch, sound unrefined | hearty with h dropped |
| VHC | C. J. Brougham | What about paintings with Lowry’s tag? Primitive | art in eh? + y; tag = tail end |
| VHC | Rev Canon C. M. Broun | Term for slave music, perhaps, with harmony but without heart: spiritual? No! | e art h(armon)y |
| VHC | D. C. Clenshaw | In bedlam, without a spot of electrotherapy, they are lacking in refinement | anag. less e |
| VHC | C. M. Edmunds | Describing Set, possibly Ra – they get muddled up | anag.; ref. badgers, Egyptian deities |
| VHC | Dr I. S. Fletcher | Hard year with limit of credit, failing of some banks | H + anag. incl. t |
| VHC | R. Gilbert | The world’s mighty short of energy. Crude’s what’s needed! | earth + (might)y |
| VHC | G. I. L. Grafton | After taking drug, they are out of this world! | anag. less E |
| VHC | R. J. Heald | Blunt, art history’s foremost character, feeding tips to enemy as a mole? | art h in e, y, 2 defs.; ref. Anthony B. |
| VHC | E. C. Lance | Vulgar rhyme with adult content removed is disjointed, lacking metre | anag. incl. a(dul)t less m |
| VHC | C. G. Millin | Like ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’, risqué yet with content of charm | anag. incl. (c)har(m) |
| VHC | C. J. Morse | Having the substance needed for growing plants, they are pruned and then trained | anag. less e |
| VHC | D. J. R. Ogilvie | ‘Crude’ starts to escalate as Russia trims her yield | first letters; ref. oil price |
| VHC | D. J. Short | Primarily rough? Yes – as the ground | anag. of first letters and the, & lit. |
| VHC | P. L. Stone | Clear the boundary sending long hop out of the ground | anag. less bound; clear = unscramble |
| VHC | Ms C. Van Starkenburg | Lascivious Celt excited when scrubbed by wanton Chatterley | anag. less anag.; ref. Charles May, character in ‘LCL’ referred to as ‘the lascivious Celt’ |
| VHC | L. Ward | Inclining towards the blue, yachter steered clear of Cape | anag. less C |
| VHC | R. J. Whale | Cut eye having absorbed a short right, Henry is containing Clay | a rt H in ey(e); ref. H. Cooper, Cassius C. |
| VHC | D. C. Williamson | —— tuba? Could be jarring at Bayreuth | comp. anag. & lit.; see Wagner tuba in ‘Oxf. Comp. to Mus.’, etc. |
| VHC | A. J. Young | Need to spend a penny? Yen goes after having visited bog, perhaps | (d)earth + Y |
HCs in competition 1893 awarded to: