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From the preamble to Azed No. 50

From the answer to each clue the solver must omit one letter wherever it occurs (sometimes more than once) before entry in the diagram. The 38 letters thus omitted, read in the order in which the clues are printed, form a quotation from the ‘Oxford Dictionary of Quotations‘ (omitting one word) which Azed optimistically hopes will be said of him hereafter. Definitions in the clues refer to the full, unmutilated answers; subsidiary indications refer to the mutilated forms to be entered in the diagram. Numbers in brackets show the full lengths of unmutilated words.

1 Down is the missing word from the quotation (not descriptive of Azed!), observing the rules of the puzzle. Competitors should submit a clue to this word following the style of all the other clues in the puzzle.

Variations

In Azed Nos. 200, 900 and 1200 the subsidiary indications in certain clues lead to the defined answer less some specific thematic letters to be determined by solvers.

In Ximenes 728 clues the latent letter is also omitted from the definition wherever it occurs.