Azed Competition No. 447 Azed Slip | ◀ 443 | 452 ▶ | Other competitions | 
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ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 447 | Nov 1980 | URTICARIA / APOGRAPHS | Right and Left | 25 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | G. Johnstone | Eruptive outbreak – “ ’air cut! ’air cut!” repeats a Petty Officer evaluating lines of ratings | anag.; a PO graphs; cut = drunk |
| Second | C. Loving | ‘Double ’air cut’ ordered rash Petty Officer, ‘Part with gash curls – no time for nice models!’ | anag. of air air cut; anag. incl. PO less t; gash4 |
| Third | D. V. B. Unwin | Oh! Grappa’s in cocktail – doubles get the wind up after furore of tauric eruption | anag.; anag. + air (rev.) |
| VHC | C. Allen Baker | Rash: just up and shaved I caught one, getting the breeze up… psora – horrific! A G.P. treated others just the same | tru(e) (rev.) + I c a + air (rev.); anag. incl. H; former film certificate |
| VHC | E. J. Burge | ‘ “Hurricane” missing first and last two in frame, with a tie not quite done up, gets rash’ prints a posh rag page (sporting) | anag. of (H)urrica(ne) a ti(e); anag. incl. p; ref. ‘H.’ Higgins, snooker player preferring open neck |
| VHC | A. J. Crow | Papa’s rough, non-U, reels, spits, renders, without a bit of style, rustic song. I burn | anag. less U; anag. less s + aria; spit n. |
| VHC | S. Goldie | Phosphorus, half wound with a rag, spits fire from touching air – cut air supply | anag. incl. phosp(horus); anag.; spit n., supply adv. |
| VHC | J. F. Grimshaw | Active grasshopper jumps without hesitation and second copies exactly the same convulsive motion finding itself amidst poisonous root – a rash type | a + anag. less er, s; tic in urari a |
| VHC | P. F. Henderson | Rash primaries in USA – really, those idiots Carter and Reagan (ignoring Anderson) – you can’t choose between them! Perhaps hostages will be released – then you could say: ‘He’s set these free’ | first letters; comp. anag.; ref. US election, Iran crisis |
| VHC | V. G. Henderson | This ‘nettly’ rash could be acutely irritant source of anxiety; photographer’s first to go spare endlessly upset about wench’s bottom: perfect models are required | comp. anag. & lit.; a p + h in anag. of go spar(e) |
| VHC | E. M. Holroyd | Rash modification of repeated air – cut a page, turn over, scrambling unfinished phrase – photocopies needed? | anag. of air air cut; a p + go (rev.) + anag. of phras(e) |
| VHC | C. H. Hudson | This may sting – treating it with a curari dressing can make a rash go pop (nothing lost in reproductions) | anag. in anag.; anag. less 0 |
| VHC | Miss E. H. C. Jenkins | Spasm in original song leads to rash transposition of a G-sharp op. – copies wanted | tic in ur-aria; anag. |
| VHC | J. R. H. Jones | Doubles softly round to G.P. with rash breaking out: after a skin eruption suffered with no hospital, one gets wind up about little cases | a + p O + anag.; (H)urt + ca. in I air (rev.) |
| VHC | D. F. Manley | Tenors gasp and harp on about love, a complaint conveyed perhaps by touching hesitancy in diction and jerking melody | 0 in anag.; ur tic aria; on = getting drunk |
| VHC | D. P. M. Michael | Re-writes unaltered Greek in a version of Sappho after some hesitation; nervous reaction to song causes complaint | a + Gr. in anag.; ur + tic + aria |
| VHC | W. L. Miron | Herbert in awkward love grasp facsimiles primitive convulsion: strain causes eruption | A.P.H. in anag. incl. 0; ur-tic aria; ref. writer and broadcaster |
| VHC | J. J. Moore | Skin eruption – it’s to be treated with curari – active initially as pimples or gatherings, with painfully sharp repetitions | anag. + a; a p o g + anag. |
| VHC | R. A. Mostyn | Precise reproductions, pungent, taken from a photograph (head of self) can bring out irritating blemishes, the heart of caricature about one, possibly | anag. less hot + s; I in anag. of (c)aricatur(e) |
| VHC | N. O’Neill | Effects of rubbing, perhaps, variations in quantity in lather of soap, signs of hesitancy, nervousness, strain:– skin rash! | graph in anag.; ur tic aria; ref. brass rubbing |
| VHC | R. J. Palmer | What accompanies ‘The Sting’? Early sort of tune with jerky movement in it copies a piano rag with posh playing | tic in ur-aria; anag. incl. p; ref. Joplin theme music for film |
| VHC | T. E. Sanders | Copies Sappho, a Greek improperly rash, with primitive sexual attraction exalted by the ultimate in lyric song | anag. incl. Gr.; ur- + it (rev.) + c + aria |
| VHC | W. J. M. Scotland | Heartlessly, the devil in print, filling a page to attempt over Sabbath, duplicates irritation – nothing’s removed from our endless suffering without 1 Ac. solved! | Ra(l)ph in a p, go (rev.), S; (0)ur + anag. in tria(l) |
| VHC | W. K. M. Slimmings | A go with partner initially and sharp mixed doubles? That’ll make you itchy, warm and dry: a lemon, maybe, cut up is the answer | anag. incl. p; air a citru(s) (rev.) |
| VHC | Mrs M. P. Webber | Rash critic with aura caught out for reviewing pop rag has distributed duplicate copies | anag. less c; anag. |
HCs in competition 447 awarded to: