Azed Competition No. 2521 Azed Slip | ◀ 2517 | 2525 ▶ | Other competitions | 
ordStats
ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2521 | Oct 2020 | CHAMBERS | normal | 20 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | R. J. Whale | After puzzling becomes hard, get this alongside OED? | comp. anag. & lit. |
| Second | R. J. Heald | Scrabble’s hard for learner? This is what’s required! | clamber’s with H for L, & lit. |
| Third | T. J. Moorey | Mrs Beach composed a suite for recorders? | anag.; ref. Amy Beach, composer, 1867-1944 |
| VHC | T. Anderson | What’s leading manual, book essential to cryptic search? | m b in anag., & lit. |
| VHC | D. & N. Aspland | Master book at heart of search when there’s clueing to be done? | M b in anag., & lit.; clue2 |
| VHC | M. Barley | Chief source for solvers in which light will be found | amber in Ch. + s, & lit. |
| VHC | H. Freeman | Child training bares bottom on them | ch + anag. incl. m, & lit. [see comments] |
| VHC | J. C. Leyland | Brash Rumpole’s No. 3 Equity Court of which leaders merely appear inept? | anag. incl. m, E C, & lit.; ref. address of R. of the Bailey |
| VHC | M. Lloyd-Jones | Cavities? For an end to toothache take Beechams Powders | anag. with r for e; powder vi. |
| VHC | D. F. Manley | Literature’s Great Johnson? Ungainly fellow’s not a name in current lexicography | Cham + be(a)r’s; ref. Smollett’s epithet for Dr Samuel J. |
| VHC | P. W. Marlow | First signs of baffling clues? Azed entrants might readily search here when perplexed | anag. of first letters, & lit. |
| VHC | C. G. Millin | When confused search me, the foremost of books for English | anag, with b for E, & lit. |
| VHC | R. J. Palmer | Burns has penned book that’s boring me – it has many Scottish words | b in me in chars |
| VHC | Dr S. J. Shaw | Consultation herein principally leads to answer’s meaning being etymologically ‘hollowed out rooms’ | first letters + r, s, & lit. |
| VHC | N. G. Shippobotham | Brahms overtures for concerts etc. may be played in these | anag. incl. c e, & lit. |
| VHC | I. Simpson | Red book – in short, my no. 1 for reference each Sabbath | anag. incl. b, m’, r + S, & lit.; red4 vt. |
| VHC | J. R. Tozer | In dialect terms, I am well-nigh supreme, holding what solver needs to finish | cham + r in bes(t), & lit.; see ch in C. |
| VHC | Mrs A. M. Walden | Architect once capable of producing HMRC base | anag.; ref. William C., architect of Somerset House, former Inland Revenue HQ |
| VHC | Ms S. Wallace | Chemise fitted with bra that is superfluous for bedroom quarters | anag. less i.e. |
| VHC | G. H. Willett | Where a judge may go quietly potty? More than one | 2 meanings |
HCs in competition 2521 awarded to: