Azed Competition No. 922 Azed Slip | ◀ 920 | 926 ▶ | Other competitions | ordStats
No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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922 | Jan 1990 | REFORMADO | normal | 26 |
Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
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First | R. F. Naish | With bent forearm and old racket I lacked command in service | anag. + do |
Second | T. J. Moorey | Man sent packing, sort of a ‘male’ order! | anag. incl. m; sort vb. |
Third | C. A. Clarke | Type active in left-wing circle? | form a in red + O, & lit. |
VHC | W. G. Arnott | A former discharged party | anag. + do, & lit. |
VHC | M. J. Barker | Unruly RAF demo involving other ranks? They made me leave the service | OR in anag. |
VHC | Mrs P. A. Bax | Unusually for OR, made officer, but not in command | anag. |
VHC | B. W. Brook | I’ve given up messing about. Open road for me! | anag.; ref. Toad |
VHC | Rev Canon C. M. Broun | From active doer in wars… to this? | anag. incl. a, & lit. |
VHC | E. J. Burge | I lost control of company ‘E type’ in winding road. (No longer in service?) | E form in anag., 2 defs. |
VHC | B. Burton | Old campaigner having manipulated ramrod, encompassing discomfiture of foe? | anag. in anag. |
VHC | G. Cuthbert | Joiner, being commissioned, repaired door frame | anag. |
VHC | N. C. Dexter | Sick of ramrod, one’s finishing? | anag. + e, & lit. |
VHC | M. Earle | ‘Fear doom! Right wrong!’ say I | anag. incl. r, & lit. |
VHC | S. Goldie | Rode sadly around estranged from unit? | anag. + a, all in anag., & lit. |
VHC | J. F. Grimshaw | Moor fared ill about from ‘O dear Cassio’? | double anag.; ref. Othello 4, 1, 136 |
VHC | R. E. Kimmons | Progressive type in study circle | form in read + O, lit. |
VHC | R. D. Lyall | Like Cassio, fared badly in mix-up with Moor! | anag.; ref. Othello |
VHC | D. F. Manley | A soldier from conflict with no corps finally left, I? | anag. less s, l, I, & lit. |
VHC | C. J. Morse | Progressive judge briefly imprisoned mother in gold swindle | ref + ma in or do; ref. Pickles controversy |
VHC | D. Norwood | Top class but kept in to repeat exercise; one aims for improvement | form A in redo |
VHC | F. R. Palmer | Whistleblower or passionate initiator of ‘openness’? | ref or mad o, & lit.; ref. glasnost |
VHC | E. R. Riddle | Getting class involved in study of Luther is an example of this | form in read o’ |
VHC | D. M. Stanford | DA treated with Rome for ousted general? | anag.; ref. Noriega |
VHC | R. C. Teuton | He could have reflected ‘O, for armed conflict’ | anag. |
VHC | C. W. Thomas | Liberal? More of a Dr. Owen, perhaps | anag.; ref. Robert O., socialist reformer, and David O. |
VHC | R. J. Whale | End of war: for me a sad event? | r + anag. + do, & lit. |
HCs in competition 922 awarded to: