Azed Competition No. 1901 Azed Slip | ◀ 1897 | 1906 ▶ | Other competitions | 
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ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | Nov 2008 | SANITISE | normal | 22 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | R. Hesketh | It is covered by ‘compos mentis’ and ‘clean round the bend’ perhaps | it is in sane |
| Second | J. C. Leyland | A NHS sister’s aim? —— hospital MRSA’s contaminated | comp. anag. incl. H, & lit. |
| Third | J. R. Tozer | Player taking on the rest is going in with a full set of marbles, to clean up | ‘it’ is in sane |
| VHC | M. Barley | Deploy antiseptics: put another way, —— with TCP | comp. anag. & lit. |
| VHC | C. Boyd | Purge Stalin orchestrated with revolutionary energy succeeded in isolating Left | anag. incl. E s i’ less l |
| VHC | V. Dixon | Unhappily, Auntie’s is not universal purge | anag. less U; ref. J. Ross, R. Brand scandal |
| VHC | A. S. Everest | ‘There’s not a pagoda in A Passage to India,’ exploded censor | anag. less sequential letters |
| VHC | C. D. S. & E. A. Field | Purge of offensive elements – from Auntie vacuous smut is (when broadcast) ‘non-U’, regardless of time | anag. incl. s(mu)t less U t |
| VHC | G. I. L. Grafton | Head of State, i.e. Stalin, without a shred of leniency, organised purge | S + anag. less l |
| VHC | R. J. Heald | Stalin’s ire roused? Liberal resistance must be eliminated in purge | anag. less L R |
| VHC | P. F. Henderson | Remove offensive stuff from it before corruption of tinies | SA + anag. |
| VHC | E. C. Lance | Antiseptic’s deployed to do this with TCP? | comp. anag. & lit. |
| VHC | D. F. Manley | Make sound with deletion of ‘f——’, holding protest back? | sit-in (rev.) in sa(f)e, & lit. |
| VHC | P. W. Marlow | End for Ross? Auntie is disowning sign of uncouthness in order to turn clean | s + anag. less u; ref. Jonathan R.’s offensive phone prank |
| VHC | T. J. Moorey | Government wanting gains in crunch note banks of ‘shame’ clean up | anag. less G + ti + s, e; ref. banking crisis |
| VHC | R. S. Morse | Antiseptics will do this (and TCP too) | comp. anag. & lit. |
| VHC | A. Plumb | Fine anagram I sent is securing first in AZED | A in anag.; fine, anagram, vt. |
| VHC | R. C. Teuton | Make PC stable with thingy one’s installed | it I’s in sane; PC, 2 mngs. |
| VHC | A. Varney | Three sit in a sunlounger – lying back it splits clean through | hidden rev. |
| VHC | L. Ward | Remove undesirable elements from a contingent of the sit-in ASLEF backed | hidden rev. |
| VHC | G. H. Willett | Clean up broadcast nastiness, removing last signs of Jonathan Ross for one | anag. with I for n s; ref. offensive phone prank |
| VHC | Dr E. Young | Edit i.e. as in s**t | anag. & lit. |
HCs in competition 1901 awarded to: