Azed Competition No. 818 Azed Slip | ◀ 816 | 823 ▶ | Other competitions | 
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ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 818 | Jan 1988 | EMBUSQUÉ | normal | 25 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | D. H. Tompsett | Skipper? Board dismissing for example Caine’s! | embus + Que(eg); ref. ‘The Caine Mutiny’ |
| Second | R. O’Donoghue | Space vehicle? Quite without appeal! I certainly won’t volunteer | em bus qu(it)e |
| Third | J. R. H. Jones | Get troops moving once fit: you won’t find me there! | embus que(me), & lit. |
| VHC | M. Barley | Could you style me as ‘bum-esque’?! | anag. & lit. |
| VHC | Mrs A. R. Bradford | Waiting to board coach? First three in line only | embus que(ue) |
| VHC | C. J. Brougham | Queen’s bounty man? Am exotic antonym: an —— | comp. anag. & lit. |
| VHC | E. J. Burge | Requirement for doctor? Wretched queues all round. Might get slacker with government cash | MB in anag.; ref. NHS cash crisis |
| VHC | E. S. Clark | Skrimshanker, unit cut off, runs away | em + b(r)usque |
| VHC | A. G. Corrigan | In English, dissolute bum; is that, in French, flâneur? | E + anag. + ‘s + que |
| VHC | N. C. Dexter | Bit of a bolshie – me! – about service involving Queen, perhaps | b + me (rev.) + Qu. in use, & lit. |
| VHC | M. Earle | Lacking aspiration, he bums around entirely without anticipatory object | (h)e + anag. + qu(it)e, & lit. |
| VHC | Dr I. S. Fletcher | Doctor beset by queues after surgery – he’ll not be private | MB in anag. |
| VHC | A. Lawrie | After start of examination doctor takes a half of whisky. I’m not impressed! | e + MB + usque(baugh) |
| VHC | M. A. Macdonald-Cooper | January’s exercise: waiting past, queues mob wildly, missing nothing! | anag. less 0; ref. Jan comp and sales |
| VHC | Mrs J. Mackie | Cuthbert must mostly be rendered by that in French | que in anag. incl. mus(t); ref. ‘C. the shirker’ |
| VHC | D. F. Manley | I want the freedom of quiet slumbers, avoiding active list, right? | anag. less anag. incl. r, & lit. |
| VHC | H. W. Massingham | Busy bees ’um, accommodating queen and drone | Qu. in anag. |
| VHC | L. May | Blasted bum, see, without question | Qu. in anag., & lit. |
| VHC | C. G. Millin | Drone bees hum shamelessly round queen without a bit of honey | Q in anag. less h |
| VHC | T. J. Moorey | No stomach for crowd in jostling queues, I’m avoiding the Army & Navy | m(o)b in anag. |
| VHC | C. J. Morse | Loafer lying in wait to board coach ahead of more than half the queue | embus que(ue), 2 defs. |
| VHC | R. A. Mostyn | Double space at front of those awaiting transport – last two left waiting in shelter | em bus-que(ue) |
| VHC | D. S. Nagle | Chicken perhaps before which French go into transports | embus + que |
| VHC | F. R. Palmer | Bum? You do see that here, without question | Qu. in anag. |
| VHC | Dr N. Smith | One reluctant to serve small measure runs out of short | em + b(r)usque |
HCs in competition 818 awarded to: