Azed Competition No. 281 Azed Slip | ◀ 276 | 285 ▶ | Other competitions | 
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ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 281 | Aug 1977 | DINOCERAS | normal | 20 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | C. O. Butcher | A monster long ago dead I once stuck out on the head | d. + anag. + ras |
| Second | F. R. Palmer | Once I’d bumps on head, now not wholly visible in bones on right geological formation | anag. + ras, no(w) in dice + r ås, & lit. |
| Third | E. A. Beaulah | Old fossil in a state: in love and scared silly about it! | in 0 in anag. |
| VHC | J. C. Barnes | Cairn does possibly provide a fossil | anag. |
| VHC | M. A. Cooper | Wrecking Wyoming homesteads I could have caused scare amongst weedy hominoids | comp. anag. & lit. |
| VHC | R. M. S. Cork | Strange red coin found on subglacial sandbank: primitive rhino? | anag. + ås |
| VHC | J. H. Dingwall | Had six bumps up front ages ago – does in car in crash | anag. |
| VHC | J. A. Fincken | Reissued coin’s a red, a form of rhino spent in America | anag. |
| VHC | R. J. Hooper | Amiss and I score? With my stumps on the ground I walked long ago | anag.; ref. Dennis A. |
| VHC | R. Jacks | This animal’s lain in American soil and decayed | comp. anag. & lit. |
| VHC | W. Jackson | Row over rewriting of a score – something primitive with three horns | din + anag. |
| VHC | R. E. Kimmons | ‘A son!’ cried out the first of ancient zoological Eocene denizens | anag.; ref. birth of Azed’s son |
| VHC | C. Loving | Hollywood’s last scenario torn up – giant of the Wild West now fossilized | d + anag. |
| VHC | H. W. Massingham | Rhino sort of from U S rocks – coins read loosely | anag. |
| VHC | J. D. Moore | I’d cone complex on head | anag. + ras, & lit. |
| VHC | M. L. Perkins | Red’s a coin possibly found in a lot of old rhino? | anag. |
| VHC | D. R. Robinson | ‘Credos in A’ conjure up an old fossil with two horn trios | anag. |
| VHC | W. K. M. Slimmings | Scared off investing in Ohio I became stony in Wyoming | in O in anag. |
| VHC | J. F. N. Wedge | Lousy score and I was stumped – delighted diggers! | anag.; archaeologists, Australians |
| VHC | D. C. Williamson | A sexicorn possibly whereof sign of multiplying should be dead | anag. with d. for x, & lit. |
HCs in competition 281 awarded to: