Azed Competition No. 600 Azed Slip | ◀ 594 | 603 ▶ | Other competitions | 
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ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 600 | Oct 1983 | Into the jaws of Death / Into the mouth of Hell | Anagram | 35 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | P. Cargill | Too lethal? What, then, justified them on hoof? | |
| Second | Mrs E. M. Phair | Hot fool, ain’t he just, who led men that foe hit? | |
| Third | N. C. Dexter | Jonathan? How oft he doth toil! Let us fête him! | |
| VHC | D. W. Arthur | Halt the mad hot hoof, just too few in the line | |
| VHC | F. D. H. Atkinson | Who joineth in the hot oft-mouthed tale (Alf’s)? | |
| VHC | T. H. Ayre | To the men who joined! Oh, faithful to the last! | |
| VHC | E. A. Beaulah | Jonah left this whale he met: found it too hot! | |
| VHC | J. D. D. Blaikie | Jonathan, who set the lot, I hie to doff the lum | |
| VHC | Rev C. M. Broun | Life to Jonathan! His the flow outdoeth them | |
| VHC | Mrs D. M. Colley | Oh what faith led them on to the line of joust | |
| VHC | R. Dean | Oh Jonathan! Thou oft hidest theme of it well | |
| VHC | P. Drummond | Who told those faithful men to join the hate? | h. = enemy bombardment, OED Suppt. |
| VHC | Dr I. S. Fletcher | Jonah not the food to suit, the whale left him | |
| VHC | D. V. Harry | I fool with these, tho’ Jonathan flouted them | i.e. latent letters. |
| VHC | V. G. Henderson | Would ‘To the Foolish’ fit the theme, Jonathan? | |
| VHC | K. Hunter | I duel with Jonathan tho’ the theme oft fools | |
| VHC | M. Jellis | Fish out oft told O.T. theme – Jonah in the whale | |
| VHC | J. Kremer | To the toothful jowl? Then I’m in the heat of Hades | |
| VHC | A. Lawrie | Who led them to the foe in that foolish jaunt? | |
| VHC | C. W. Laxton | The foolish feel Jonathan doth outwit them | |
| VHC | G. Leversha | So futile of Jonathan to withhold the theme! | |
| VHC | D. J. Mackay | Oh, ‘Alf T.’ (who jotted the lines), thou hit on fame! | |
| VHC | D. F. Manley | Oh, I fete toilful Jonathan, who doth set them! | |
| VHC | D. P. M. Michael | Ah, just then the foe that line of doom hit low! | |
| VHC | C. J. Morse | How that famous ‘thin line’ jolted the hot foe! | ref. W. H. Russell’s ‘thin red line’, see ODQ. |
| VHC | J. Osmond | Ho! Shout of the men who joined the fatal tilt | |
| VHC | F. R. Palmer | How hale the faith of just men not loth to die! | |
| VHC | R. J. Palmer | Host who made hot jaunt into the foe fell hit | |
| VHC | Mrs D. M. C. Prichard | Just a howl to the fiend of the month I loathe | |
| VHC | A. Scott | O how the men hied off into that lethal joust! | |
| VHC | Mrs E. J. Shields | Oh Jonathan, the thief of time, thou dost well! | |
| VHC | W. K. M. Slimmings | Thou, Matthew – John, too – on His death felt life | |
| VHC | G. Stubbs | Lines Alf doth jot out. Oh how fine that theme | |
| VHC | R. T. Taylor | Woman he jilted to haunt the life of hot shot? | ref. C. Parkinson affair. |
| VHC | S. Woods | A lot of fit men who just heed not the hot hail |
HCs in competition 600 awarded to: