Azed Competition No. 2430 Azed Slip | ◀ 2428 | 2434 ▶ | Other competitions | 
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ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2430 | Jan 2019 | CLERIHEW | normal | 21 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | M. Barley | Quirky couplets of rhyme celebrating well-known life | anag. of initial letter pairs, & lit. |
| Second | J. R. C. Michie | Quirky wee lyric not unknown to contain a dash of humour | h in anag. less y, & lit. |
| Third | J. Vincent & Ms R. Porter | Vehicle heading off west colliding with rear of car, making short work of Bentley | anag. less v incl. w, r; ref. Edmund C. Bentley |
| VHC | T. C. Borland | Hail Crewe’s styling that delivers a Bentley’s lines | anag. less a; Bentley cars designed and built in Crewe |
| VHC | M. Coates | Rhyme whose content is going to be funny, while facet of character is involved | anag. incl. r(hym)e, c, & lit. |
| VHC | W. Drever | Diminutive lay minister fell for head of choir | cleric with hew for c |
| VHC | C. & E. A. Field | Warden Spooner/Would much sooner/Toast ‘our queer Dean’s’ health at dinner/Than rate this ‘hairy clue’ a winner | spoonerism of c. |
| VHC | H. Freeman | Form which Lear (Ed) had missed? | anag. less had, & lit. |
| VHC | A. H. Harker | His poetic pictures/Ignored scansional strictures:/Bet he contrived/To make celeb writhe | comp. anag. & lit. |
| VHC | R. J. Heald | Michael Winner/In a/Shocking display/Chucks main and starter in Nobu away? | anag. less main N, & lit.; ref. former restaurant critic and top Japanese restaurant |
| VHC | J. R. H. Jones | Twirl wheel and half circle a Bentley | anag. incl. cir(cle) |
| VHC | D. F. Manley | Casually, car is ‘wheels’ – striking as foremost of suchlike, Bentley’s product? | anag. less a, s |
| VHC | Rev Prebendary M. R. Metcalf | Curate, say, mostly has bits of his egg well-cooked in pithy vignette | cleri(c) + first letters; ref. classic ‘Punch’ cartoon |
| VHC | C. G. Millin | A rhyme that’s funny here with irregular length couplets primarily | anag. incl. initial letters, & lit. |
| VHC | T. J. Moorey | Wanting what’s original in anthology, plainly one looks for Edmund —— | cle(a)r (adv) + I + hew (Spenser), & lit.; see hue1 |
| VHC | T. Rudd | What Ed —— B/Effervescently/ Could create is instanced here:/With a little biog., idle cheer | comp. anag. incl. w, b, & lit. |
| VHC | Dr S. J. Shaw | Whimsical verse (not massive, irregular in format) composed about personage ultimately | comp. anag. incl. e, & lit. |
| VHC | P. Tharby | In which Bentley specialised while heads of rival engineering companies diversified | anag. incl. r, e, c |
| VHC | Mrs A. M. Walden | Rhyme originally penned by EC while working | r in anag. & lit. |
| VHC | K. J. Williams | Alloy car wheel I exchanged for a creation of Bentley | anag. with I for a |
| VHC | K. & J. Wolff | Said Reverend Spooner,/‘My ball of vicuña/Is one of the very few/Ways to say ——’ | i.e. ‘hairy clew’, & lit. |
HCs in competition 2430 awarded to: