Azed Competition No. 1953 Azed Slip | ◀ 1949 | 1958 ▶ | Other competitions | 
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ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | Nov 2009 | TRAUMA (misprint of T) | Misprints | 23 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | M. A. Macdonald-Cooper | Hears of distraught mother’s emotional shock | heart; (dis)trau(ght) + ma |
| Second | P. McKenna | Broken metatarsus sews badly leaving emotional shock | sets; anag. less anag. |
| Third | W. F. Main | Perhaps confusion would result when a rum is drunk in tapas bar action | contusion; anag. in ta(pas) |
| VHC | D. Arthur | Drug now used for amateur suffering injury | not; anag. less E |
| VHC | M. Barker | First signs of horrid reaction after undergoing major accident? | torrid; first letters & lit. |
| VHC | M. Barley | Market in recession: it’s for everyone involved a painful stage | state; U in mart (rev.) + a |
| VHC | J. G. Booth | Taking a bend in ramshackle pram can give you a shock | tram; a U in anag. |
| VHC | C. A. Clarke | Knocking our favourite finally from amateur dancing produces a shock reaction | out; anag. less e |
| VHC | P. Coles | Dance forgotten, Travolta encountering Thurman’s shocked stare | state; Tra(volta) + Uma; ref. film ‘Pulp Fiction’ |
| VHC | E. Cross | Shock occasioned by gold found stashed in rickety pram | tram; Au in anag. |
| VHC | V. Dixon | Rank amateur eliminating Spain produces a shocked stare | state; anag. less E |
| VHC | T. J. Donnelly | Radium digested in rum a shocking experience | tum; Ra in tum a |
| VHC | C. M. Edmunds | Amateur dancing, when excess energy leaves shattered stage? | state; anag. less E |
| VHC | A. G. Fleming | Faces of terrorised reveal an utter mystification and a shocked stare | state; first letters |
| VHC | Dr I. S. Fletcher | Result of shocking incident by Capone, not ending with one inside | Capote; a in Truma(n); ref. St Valentine’s Day massacre and T. Capote’s ‘In Cold Blood’ |
| VHC | R. Gilbert | ‘Amateur’ communications manager’s rewiring causes shock | retiring; am. UART (all rev.) |
| VHC | A. & R. Haden | Engineers leaving armature light may lead to injury | tight; anag. less RE |
| VHC | G. Johnstone | Revolutionary Marat soaking in a tub’s content … one sees the scene for forthcoming shock | sets; (t)u(b) in anag. |
| VHC | C. Loving | What a brick cyclist runs into – it’s a cut arm with canine knocked out unfortunately | trick; anag. less c; trick cyclist = psychiatrist |
| VHC | D. F. Manley | Marker showing recession going to year’s third quarter with UK not half in distress | market; U(K) in mart (rev.) + (ye)a(r) |
| VHC | J. R. C. Michie | Defective armature, half of wire worn out, cause shock | torn; anag. less (wi)re |
| VHC | T. J. Moorey | Are millions in a reduced state as backed banks make a packet? | take; r a in m in a UT (rev.); bank vt., packet = injury |
| VHC | A. Plumb | Wound arm with gun’s second shot in LA | TA; anag. incl. u in TA |
HCs in competition 1953 awarded to: