Azed Competition No. 1979 Azed Slip | ◀ 1975 | 1984 ▶ | Other competitions | 
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ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | May 2010 | FAR-OUT | normal | 24 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | P. W. Marlow | Term for modern expressed by a nut for jazzing? | anag. less n, & lit. |
| Second | R. J. Heald | Amazing safari: taking such, you’ll see exotic species of monkey | i.e. safari with far out = sai |
| Third | C. J. Morse | Unsociable, not revolutionary, and trad, not rad – I mean rad, not trad | farou(Che) + t(rad) |
| VHC | D. & N. Aspland | Avant-garde panned as ‘art fou’ | anag. |
| VHC | M. Barley | Of art done with element of unconventionality? | anag. incl. u, & lit. |
| VHC | Ms S. Curran | Wonderful service returned – not in court | RAF (rev.) + out |
| VHC | N. C. Dexter | After start of Feb. a change for our temperature: rather more than just ‘cool’! | F + a + anag. + t |
| VHC | T. J. Donnelly | Grotesquely fat roué getting his end away? Weird! | anag. less e |
| VHC | G. I. L. Grafton | Weird leader of Daleks is leaving Tardis, with UFO destroyed | anag. less D is; ref. ‘Dr Who’ |
| VHC | J. Grimes | Fab Four at work beginning to formulate a Magical Tour | anag., f + a + anag. |
| VHC | R. Hesketh | Ace service returned? Impossible | RAF (rev.) + out |
| VHC | J. Hood | Wonderful for hippy to waste time downing tab | far(t ab)out |
| VHC | Mrs S. D. Johnson | Rum stout takes our fancy | anag. in fat |
| VHC | J. C. Leyland | Who offers correspondence course in fine art? Taking this could make father the intellectual! | OU in f art, father with far out = the |
| VHC | W. F. Main | Satisfying drop of Scotch taken with grub | fa’ + rout |
| VHC | D. F. Manley | Following a way expressing eccentricity? | f a rout(e), & lit. |
| VHC | T. J. Moorey | Mostly true of a freak | anag. less e, & lit. |
| VHC | F. R. Palmer | Avant garde (of initially unconventional Art Nouveau)? | anag. incl. u, & lit. |
| VHC | A. Plumb | Frequently securing first in AZED – completely satisfying | A in fr. + out |
| VHC | P. L. Stone | Wizard! Harry at fourteen taking pains to be champion! | anag. less teen; ref. H. Potter, crowned Triwizard Champion |
| VHC | J. R. Tozer | Stéphane and Django’s crazy talent overlapped in jazz style | fou overlapping art; ref. S. Grappelli, D. Reinhardt |
| VHC | L. Ward | Avant-garde work of art you finally comprehended | u in anag. |
| VHC | A. J. Wardrop | Intellectual newspaper contains leaders in Arabic, or in French | Ar ou in FT |
| VHC | A. Whittaker | Dizzy or Fats on Blue Note – such noble tones | comp. anag. & lit.; ref. D. Gillespie, F. Navarro, jazz trumpeters, and record label |
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