Azed Competition No. 1945 Azed Slip | ◀ 1940 | 1949 ▶ | Other competitions | 
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ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | Sep 2009 | PRISON | normal | 25 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | I. Simpson | Centre for keeping crooked characters in irons? | p + anag., & lit. |
| Second | J. C. Leyland | Taste of Pinot Noir’s ruined in cooler | P + anag. |
| Third | M. Barley | Place one’s in for term of incarceration | I’s in pro + n, & lit. |
| VHC | J. G. Booth | Getting choky, off-colour pro starts to shank into no-man’s-land | anag. incl s i n |
| VHC | Mrs M. J. Cansfield | Can leaders in parliament really imagine such overheads necessary? | first letters; ref. MPs’ expenses |
| VHC | V. Dixon | The French seized one in their capital, all going forward | pris on (Fr.), P(a)ris + on, & lit.; ref. storming of the Bastille |
| VHC | C. M. Edmunds | Where ‘Society’ bungs rogue element? | S in prion2, & lit. |
| VHC | R. Gilbert | Where internment begins to eat into a man’s soul, the essence of liberty lost | i in person less (lib)e(rty), & lit. |
| VHC | J. Grimes | Place right for ring involved in corruption | poison with r for o, & lit. |
| VHC | D. V. Harry | Brig refitted in southern port after losing end of mast | anag. incl. S less t |
| VHC | E. C. Lance | Bastille taken in French revolutionary initiations of New Order | pris + N O (rev.) |
| VHC | E. Looby | Prayer has Pastor driving out Old Nick | orison with P for o |
| VHC | D. F. Manley | There’s power in prayer to oust Old Nick | orison with P for o |
| VHC | P. W. Marlow | Pound is prone to slide with first sign of economy failing | anag. less e |
| VHC | C. J. Morse | You’ll find no reformed rips returning here | no + anag. (all rev.), & lit. |
| VHC | R. J. Palmer | Spoil iron bar to make slick break out here? | anag. less oil, & lit. |
| VHC | D. P. Shenkin | No saint in this jail? A pathological rogue | i.e. prison less S = prion |
| VHC | P. L. Stone | Cells getting ‘religious instruction’ well inside Pakistan’s borders | RI so in P, n |
| VHC | J. R. Tozer | Bird’s served primarily in it | s in prion1, & lit. |
| VHC | A. Varney | Wherein, for character facing purgatory, ordinary would have supplied prayer | orison with p for o, & lit.; see ordinary (n) |
| VHC | A. Vick | Enclose half of this in half of these and those, perhaps | (th)is in pron(ouns) |
| VHC | L. Ward | For taking lives, one’s inside…here? | is in pro + (o)n(e), & lit. |
| VHC | A. Whittaker | For porridge, put its two central ingredients, a little salt and oatmeal, in an empty pan | ri s o, all in p(a)n |
| VHC | A. J. Young | Bird’s done at one – parson’s nose is turning into this season’s fancy | comp. anag. |
| VHC | Dr E. Young | Reading for Oscar, put away? | poison (vb) with r(eading) for o, & lit.; put away = kill, imprison; ref. O. Wilde, ‘Reading Gaol’ |
HCs in competition 1945 awarded to: