Azed Competition No. 84 Azed Slip | ◀ 79 | 88 ▶ | Other competitions | 
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ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 84 | Oct 1973 | MIRLIGOES / ILL-OMENED | Right and Left | 21 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | K. W. Johnson | Jock’s dizziness, caused by topless female in centre of motorway, sets off unfortunate, mile long, mostly end-on crashes | (g)irl in M1 + goes; anag. of mile l end-o(n) |
| Second | E. Chalkley | Dizziness of Scots girl, one troubled with some unfortunate ailment, rambling about need to ring doctor up | anag. incl. I; ill + MO (rev.) in anag. |
| Third | Mrs S. M. Macpherson | Sinister outcome of oilmen led astray staggers me – oil-rigs being sabotaged | anag.; anag.; giddiness = staggers |
| VHC | Mrs A. J. Bell | Nasty old men lie with unfortunate girls – love ’em I mean. Such giddiness! | anag.; anag. incl. 0; mean = out of sorts |
| VHC | R. S. Caffyn | Doom-laden, coming back from garden, emollients dispel soil, grime, vertigo | hidden rev.; anag. |
| VHC | T. Dwyer | Unhappy, sick with prognosticated dizziness: some girl I got into trouble | ill omened; anag. |
| VHC | Mrs W. Fearon | Unlucky ailment predicted – giddiness. Some upset going round whirligig, one party taken off | ill omened; whirligig minus Whig in anag. |
| VHC | Dr B. Greer | Inauspicious, disorganized, disheartened Lenin model Russian community’s still without vitality in post-revolutionary state | anag. incl. Le(n)in; mir + go in lies; ’s still = lies |
| VHC | P. Holtby | Damned silly old men lie absurdly grim lies about love experienced in the heather after a fling | anag.; 0 in anag. |
| VHC | E. Hornby | Whirling some girl I vexed unhappy, queer “dollie-men” | anag.; anag. |
| VHC | A. D. Legge | Some girl, I – liberated – a product of revolution; star-crossed, left with leaderless females, I showed the way around | anag.; l (w)omen in I led |
| VHC | T. A. Martin | Dizzy dollie men? I’m filled with foreboding. For dizziness, some girl I fancy is the answer | anag.; anag. |
| VHC | C. J. Morse | Some girl I wronged in a giddy spell – most unfortunate – has done me wrong after wrong | anag.; ill + anag. |
| VHC | F. E. Newlove | Old men lie here distraught, doomed; lie so grim, so forlorn, they make the senses reel | anag.; anag. |
| VHC | Dr R. J. Palmer | Effect of too much whisky? With a litre in drunken orgies, I’m hapless, sick, need MO badly | l. in anag.; ill + anag. |
| VHC | W. H. Pegram | Giddiness troubling gomeril is unfortunate ailment – need MO badly | anag.; ill + anag. |
| VHC | Mrs E. M. Phair | Unfortunate, this – crazy oil-men led ’em; oil rigs wrecked – a sympton of malaise in Scotland | anag.; anag. |
| VHC | K. Reed | Old men lie injured – a disastrous result of some scrimmaging round middle of whirligig? | anag.; (wh)irlig(ig) in anag. & lit. |
| VHC | G. D. Sanders | Dizziness created by some girl I fancy – unfortunate moll I need badly | anag.; anag. |
| VHC | J. Steele | Vertigo affects some – one girl unlucky; Mollie sways, comes to sad end | anag. incl. I; anag. + anag. |
| VHC | Brig R. F. E. Stoney | Confused state of some girl I wrongly made sick with love over me has bad end threatening | anag.; ill + 0 + me + anag. |
HCs in competition 84 awarded to: