Azed Competition No. 2469 Azed Slip | ◀ 2464 | 2473 ▶ | Other competitions | 
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ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2469 | Oct 2019 | GUDDLE | Spoonerisms | 22 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | R. J. Heald | Sunday’s Mass beginning to grate forces Catholic to leave fold | Sandy’s muss; g for C in cuddle; fold = embrace |
| Second | J. C. Leyland | Gaultier urges dress designers, primarily the French, to tackle kitsch? | tickle catch; first letters + le |
| Third | A. Chamberlain | Indulged in chicanery, leaving NI upset and Dublin mad? | dabble in mud; anag. less anag; ref. Brexit |
| VHC | M. Barley | Sunday’s mass the reverend held in simple English, avoiding Latin | Sandy’s muss; DD in gul(L) + E; simple n |
| VHC | T. C. Borland | Crook old judge, despatching preliminaries, calls up at Bailey | balls-up at ceilidh; anag. less first letters |
| VHC | C. A. Clarke | Promiscuous dude with good looks initially dazzled frump | frazzled dump; anag. incl. g, l |
| VHC | W. Drever | A tight wrangle thwarted leaders of EU and UK getting ‘leave deal’ done | right tangle; anag. of first letters |
| VHC | Dr I. S. Fletcher | Pocketing two pennies, heartless cunning dip lands in hock perhaps | hands in loch; d, d in gu(i)le |
| VHC | J. Grimes | Direct debit involved in gold tip for diddlers | dip for tiddlers; DD in gule |
| VHC | M. Hodgkin | To patch car by hand, say, plastered glue round sides of dashboard | catch parr; d, d in anag. |
| VHC | T. J. Moorey | Mogg to a fan in Scotland? Government dude cleverly introducing Latin | fog to a man; G + L in anag.; ref. Jacob Rees-M. |
| VHC | R. J. Sharkey | Mischievous daughter glued Tim’s tackle | Tam’s tickle; anag. incl. d |
| VHC | Dr S. J. Shaw | Scot’s good eating starters of delicious lemon pickle under tarts of Highland trout | tickle underparts; first letters in gude |
| VHC | C. Short | Gnu decimated and landscape emptied – result of whopping slaughter in the Lowlands? | slopping water; first and last letters; ref. Scottish/African lowlands |
| VHC | I. Simpson | Splash gladly in the men’s – flush once when pressure’s good | madly … glens; g for p in puddle |
| VHC | P. Tharby | Deal for fab antiquity such as Scottie turned up | feel for dab; eld dug (rev.) |
| VHC | A. J. Varney | Grab from water, by hair bands, daughter slipping in muddy deluge, losing footing | bare hands; d in anag. less e |
| VHC | J. Vincent & Ms R. Porter | Bits of granite unearthed during drilling left enormous rickle in tunnel | tickle in runnel; first letters |
| VHC | Mrs A. M. Walden | Good Dudley mostly settled mad Bess | bad mess; g + anag. less y; ref. Elizabeth I |
| VHC | Ms S. Wallace | Tots skip off eluding touch of discipline when home is left behind | Scots tip; anag. incl. d less in |
| VHC | R. J. Whale | Eg Ludd after vandalizing mangle annually? | angle manually; anag.; ref. Ned L. |
| VHC | A. Whittaker | Aberdonians grunt in rivers, hoping gold’s to be found around sources of Dee and Don | Aberdonian’s hunt … groping; D, D in gule |
HCs in competition 2469 awarded to: