Azed Competition No. 2512 Azed Slip | ◀ 2508 | 2517 ▶ | Other competitions | 
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ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2512 | Aug 2020 | OSCITATE | normal | 22 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | C. M. Edmunds | Signal need of a nap – crack Ascot tip that doesn’t finish last in race | anag. less p + e |
| Second | P. W. Marlow | Scott and those fronting ill-fated Antarctic expedition after struggling show exhaustion? | anag. incl. first letters |
| Third | P. McKenna | Gape as graves do – as cited to change yielding dead | anag. less d; ref. ‘Much Ado about Nothing’ 5.3.19 |
| VHC | T. Anderson | Do I, comatose taking a moment rising, start to tiredly ——? | anag. less mo (rev.) incl. t, & lit. |
| VHC | D. Appleton | At Cosi teen half-stifled perplexed yawn | anag. less en |
| VHC | D. & N. Aspland | Ring’s beginning in comfort – I bet that audience ultimately will be stifling a yawn | O’s + c + I + a in last letters |
| VHC | M. Barley | Possibly act so, with it getting close to bedtime | anag. + e, & lit. |
| VHC | T. C. Borland | Act so struggling over Parade’s End, finding it boring | it in anag. + e; ref. Ford Madox Ford novels |
| VHC | Mrs S. Brown | Expressing liberal energy, coal tits acrobatically catch flies perhaps | anag. less L incl. E |
| VHC | Dr I. S. Fletcher | Intimacy in kiss, heart going to signify need for bed? | it in osc(ul)ate |
| VHC | R. J. Heald | Ignoring the odds, big city store wants desperately to be fully open | anag. of alternate letters |
| VHC | M. Lloyd-Jones | Show you’re ready for bed? It’s ace to get frisky | anag. |
| VHC | A. Plumb | Toastiest cot prepared – it could make tots —— | comp. anag. & lit. |
| VHC | W. Ransome | Act One’s lively, but not new – it’s boring, making you this? | it in anag. less n |
| VHC | T. Rudd | Floppy tom cat, not a little motheaten, is first of Emily’s characters to exhibit sleepiness | anag. less m + E; ref. Bagpuss |
| VHC | Dr S. J. Shaw | It’s intrinsic to act so, possibly with ennui’s onset | it in anag. + e, & lit. |
| VHC | D. P. Shenkin | Might tedious raconteuse make rude one (us) ——? | comp. anag. & lit. |
| VHC | P. Tharby | A Scottie awfy gaunt | anag.; gaunt2 |
| VHC | J. R. Tozer | —— colourfully? With a bit of embellishment, ‘to cat’ is | anag. incl. e, & lit.; ref. ‘technicolour yawn’ |
| VHC | J. Vincent & Ms R. Porter | Extermination initially after very large attic infested – one tends to do this when boring creatures are present | os + anag. + e |
| VHC | R. J. Whale | Craftily act so tired, tip for each of newly-wed pair missing out? | anag. less d, r, & lit.; ref. honeymooners’ bedtime excuse |
| VHC | A. Whittaker | Broadcast sitcom repeat, over and over? That would make poor me —— | comp. anag. incl. o o, & lit. |
HCs in competition 2512 awarded to: