Azed Competition No. 779 Azed Slip | ◀ 774 | 783 ▶ | Other competitions | 
ordStats
ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 779 | Apr 1987 | MISSING LINK | normal | 24 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | R. F. Naish | What makes blinking heap of stones a key to man’s development? | i.e. blinking missing link = bing; ref. e.g. Stonehenge |
| Second | T. W. Mortimer | I create set with this. Strangely it’s item series isn’t lacking | comp. anag. & lit. |
| Third | S. Goldie | Modern man (Wise type!) needed my transformation: unable to see the join! | i.e. missing (the) link; ref. homo sapiens, Ernie W.; t. = false hair |
| VHC | K. Aaronovich | Strain of apes, this? Could be Peking man fossil is | comp. anag. & lit. |
| VHC | R. B. Adcock | Beginning of ‘The Mikado’: lovers’ activity – jail – ‘to be beheaded, beheaded’ would complete the sequence | M + (k)issing + (c)link |
| VHC | M. Barley | It’s me slinking abominably round foot of Himalayas? | mi + s in anag., & lit.; ref. yeti; me2 |
| VHC | Rev Canon C. M. Broun | Origin of man, or monkey, one such as might look for mate without tail clad in tailored skin | m + singl(e) in anag., & lit. |
| VHC | N. C. Dexter | Semi simian slinking up a gum tree, maybe? | anag. & lit. |
| VHC | C. M. Edmunds | Being not wholly a man, thus purblind type becomes bard | i.e. blinkard missing link = bard |
| VHC | Dr I. S. Fletcher | Is one almost complete within motorway network’s confines? | is singl(e) in M1 + n, k, & lit. |
| VHC | D. V. Harry | Subhuman brute, hiding-place unknown – old mistress must have vague inkling | miss + anag.; ape-men named by location |
| VHC | A. W. Hill | Failure to catch connection one assumed to have existed | 2 mngs. |
| VHC | R. J. Hooper | Don’t get at Mikhail G, source of overtures for reduction – he’s presumably an advance on his predecessors | miss in Glink(a); ref. composer and M. Gorbachev |
| VHC | F. P. N. Lake | In Peking man a fossil demonstrates evolution – practically making an ape of me! | comp. anag. & lit. |
| VHC | J. C. Leyland | What’d make Glinka half gaga – omitted intermezzo? | i.e. Glinka missing link = ga(ga); ref. composer |
| VHC | C. J. Lowe | Breakdown in train? – failure to catch connection! | 2 mngs. |
| VHC | H. W. Massingham | Wide of course reduced the figure needed to clinch the series | missing link(s); ref. golf, cricket |
| VHC | F. R. Palmer | I’m not really a man – you’ll see me collapse after consuming just one short | mi + singl(e) in sink; me2 |
| VHC | G. Perry | Almost human character is nigh on unique in small animal | is singl(e) in mink |
| VHC | D. R. Robinson | Cuff needing this to draw together loose ends for flapping ‘long arm’ | double mng.; cufflink, shirt; ref. Sergeant C., police, in ‘The Moonstone’ |
| VHC | A. G. Rowlinson | Failing to catch connection and being extremely late | 2 mngs. |
| VHC | H. R. Sanders | Young girl with old codger – long embedding essential for consummation | l in miss in gink |
| VHC | T. E. Sanders | Does it have various signs of simian ilk? If so, a —— it may be | comp. anag. & lit. |
| VHC | G. H. Willett | Not quite manly type gives girl strange inkling | miss + anag. |
HCs in competition 779 awarded to: