Azed Competition No. 208 Azed Slip | ◀ 203 | 212 ▶ | Other competitions | 
ordStats
ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 208 | Mar 1976 | RALPH | normal | 26 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | Dr G. B. Greer | What makes ‘poetic river’ appear as ‘poetic rover’? | i.e. R. Alph as Ralph, & lit.; ref. Coleridge, ‘Kubla Khan’ and Southey, ‘R. the Rover’ |
| Second | J. J. Goulstone | With letters in wrong, he creates hell at printers | comp. anag. & lit. |
| Third | F. R. Palmer | Reader, for one, needs to make good to get right arrangement of letters | r alph(abet); ref. Ralph R. |
| VHC | C. Allen Baker | Take ‘Lofty Peak’ – the lightest element for the pie-maker | r alp H; ‘L. P.’ popular brand of flour |
| VHC | N. S. Barrett | He’s a literal phantom, scattering letters right-and-left | hidden & lit. |
| VHC | J. C. Brash | Take all the letters and hide half of ’em? That’s what I’ll do! | r alph(abet), & lit. |
| VHC | C. O. Butcher | Reader? Could be – one surely can’t help reading | 2 mngs.; Ralph R. |
| VHC | C. A. Clarke | Take A to M? I might, mischievously | i.e. r. + half of alphabet, & lit. |
| VHC | Mrs M. P. Craine | Azed uses me to make oral phrases, say, or – as essay in crossword-making | hidden & lit.; cf. Printer’s Devilry type clue |
| VHC | D. Evans | Pie-maker’s recipe: hard on the outside, almost completely soft inside | al(l) p in r H; pie2 |
| VHC | Mrs N. Jarman | Devil condemned in chapel over the font – give him a torrent of holy water | i.e. R. Alph; ref. printing terms and Coleridge, ‘Kubla Khan’ |
| VHC | L. W. Jenkinson | Immoral philandering provides a source of consternation to chapel members | hidden; chapel = printers’ union |
| VHC | R. E. Kimmons | Holy water? It confuses chapel types | i.e. R. Alph; ref. Coleridge, ‘Kubla Khan’; chapel = printers’ union |
| VHC | A. Lawrie | Reader of ‘The Rover’? | 2 mngs.; ref. Ralph R., Southey ‘Ralph the Rover’, and comic |
| VHC | J. H. C. Leach | Sacred stream might make scared scream when I get to work | i.e. misprints, R. Alph, & lit.; ref. Coleridge, ‘Kubla Khan’ |
| VHC | J. P. Lester | I’m likely to make my constituents run down to a bunless tea | i.e. ‘sunless sea’ misprinted, R. Alph, & lit; ref. Coleridge, ‘Kubla Khan’ |
| VHC | L. K. Maltby | E.g. Richardson, brilliant star appearing endlessly after his initial opening | R + alph(a); Ralph R. |
| VHC | D. P. M. Michael | Reader responds to this pressman’s mischief | 2 mngs.; Ralph R. |
| VHC | J. D. Moore | He, (——), gets paper garbled: ‘Telegraph’, perhaps? | comp. anag. & lit. |
| VHC | J. J. Moore | He could cause the hapless printer to lose false teeth in press | anag. less anag., & lit. |
| VHC | A. J. Redstone | He makes pie following recipe: basic ingredients, no egg | r + alph(abet); pie2 |
| VHC | Rear Adm W. T. C. Ridley | In general phonotypy can mar the printed page | hidden |
| VHC | F. B. Stubbs | Take all our letters, losing half – that’s his nature | r alph(abet), & lit. |
| VHC | J. C. P. Taylor | Aged 80, father being reactionary about latitude and hard could be upsetting type | R + l in pa (rev.) + H; R (medieval) = 80 |
| VHC | J. Webster | Confusing type, he might make this run ‘down to a bunless tea’! | i.e. ‘sunless sea’ misprinted, R. Alph; ref. Coleridge, ‘Kubla Khan’ |
| VHC | B. A. Wright | Field up, right hand round, he adds to the impressing slips | alp in RH |
HCs in competition 208 awarded to: