Azed Competition No. 190 Azed Slip | ◀ 187 | 195 ▶ | Other competitions | 
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ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 190 | Nov 1975 | CASSANDRA | normal | 26 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | C. O. Butcher | One having prior dope and held in little credit | ass and in cr. + a, & lit. |
| Second | C. J. Morse | In Paris’s case, the foremost of sisters – also pursued by the Sun-god | s in cas (Fr.) + and Ra, & lit.; ref. Paris of Troy |
| Third | P. D. Gaffey | One, given a start in divination by the sun god, going on about a kind of horse | c. ass + an d Ra, & lit.; ref. Trojan horse |
| VHC | A. J. Bulman | ‘Wo, wo’, I pronounced but the horse got in | cryptic def.; wo, 2 mngs. |
| VHC | E. Chalkley | One who gloomily predicts an end of Christmas cards sent first class? | anag. incl. s + A; sent = roused |
| VHC | Mrs M. P. Craine | Churchill in the thirties, for example, aroused a sad, a heartless scorn | anag. incl. sc(o)rn |
| VHC | A. J. Crow | She gave warnings, misconstrued as canards | anag. |
| VHC | A. J. Duncum | Ineffectual early-warning agent scans radar endlessly turning | anag. incl. rada(r) |
| VHC | Mrs W. Fearon | Great one for prediction, young Ali (‘Stop him in four!’) – and an artist! | Cass(ius) and RA; ref. C. Clay |
| VHC | J. J. Goulstone | Decrepit car containing fool and I anticipate disaster | ass and in anag. |
| VHC | C. H. Hudson | My warnings were rejected as canards, wrongly | anag. |
| VHC | Mrs N. Jarman | Warner epics credited with refusing to stay silent and proving sound | cryptic def.; talking films |
| VHC | R. E. Kimmons | Powdered sandarac’s used to make things look brighter? No! | anag. |
| VHC | J. R. Kirby | One may regard playing cards as holding leads for auguring nastiness | a n in anag., & lit. |
| VHC | J. P. Lester | My warnings were rejected, mistakenly, as canards | anag. |
| VHC | Lieut Col D. Macfie | A ‘sans-card’, disestablished, Enoch? | anag.; ref. E. Powell, party-card |
| VHC | L. K. Maltby | With realm unsettled this prophet of doom could cause alarm and scares | comp. anag. & lit. |
| VHC | D. F. Manley | Tory idiot and leader of racialists – one description of Enoch? | C ass and r a; ref. E. Powell |
| VHC | H. S. Mason | Says ‘Beware’ and Caesar’s troubled – third of Ides gone | anag. less e |
| VHC | L. May | Clairvoyant, attracted scepticism, suffered abominably – no doubt resisted Apollo’s overtures | first letters & lit. |
| VHC | J. D. Moore | First signs of co-operation as Smith, seeing African Nationalists, discusses Rhodesian aims? I see only a black future | first letters |
| VHC | R. D. Prior | Could augur such sorrows as nobody deemed really authentic, initially | first letters & lit. |
| VHC | W. J. M. Scotland | ——: (calls to all about) ‘Reject Greek character! Extremes of danger!’ | san d, r in ca’s a’, & lit. |
| VHC | F. B. Stubbs | First signs of countless alarms she sounded, all negatived directly by the sun-god | initial letters + Ra, & lit. |
| VHC | G. A. Tomlinson | Suspect as canards my revelation | anag. |
| VHC | Dr R. L. Wynne | Source of sober forecasts treated as canards | anag. |
HCs in competition 190 awarded to: