AZED CROSSWORD 930

SABULOSE

1.  H. W. Massingham: Gravelly rendering of a blues with Satchmo pouring his heart out (anag. incl. S(atchm)o; ref. Louis Armstrong).

2.  Dr I. S. Fletcher: Resort suitable when it is so? (anag. with so for it, & lit.).

3.  R. F. Naish: Carpenter was so blue, discounting suggestion of walrus such was the beach (anag. less w; carpenter vb.).

VHC

M. J. Balfour: As boules ground? (anag. & lit.).

E. A. Beaulah: Boule’s agitated after it gets word concerning Pylos (SA + anag.; ref. Athenian Council, Homeric epithet for P.).

C. J. Brougham: Sandy’s sad … spent penny leaving nothing in purse! (sa(d) + 0 in bulse).

E. J. Burge: ‘It’s so blue, with waves …’ (Contrived description of seaside feature?) (SA + anag.).

N. C. Dexter: Gritty youngster in control of jumbo starts to land on single engine (Sabu + l o s e; ref. S. the Elephant Boy).

C. M. Edmunds: Gritty South African black gets universal following once free (SA + B + U + lose²; ref. N. Mandela).

J. Grimes: Gritty SAS blow up enemies? It wipes men out (comp. anag.).

V. G. Henderson: As sign of times, perhaps, South African black unity’s dawning – Nelson, unbounded, free! (SA + B + u + anag. less N, n; sands of time).

G. Johnstone: As boules ground? (anag. & lit.).

D. F. Manley: Ground base for foolish soul’s housing? It’s revealed to be such (anag. in anag., & lit.; ref. Matt. 7:26-27).

J. R. C. Michie: Such grains I’d mixed – in promoting subsoil’s drainage (comp. anag.).

C. G. Millin: What oases may become, with endless expanse encroaching (bul(k) in anag., & lit.).

T. J. Moorey: Brothers finally getting censure all round look like fakes (s + lo in abuse; ref. Fayed bros.; fakes = sandy shale).

R. S. Morse: Such as boules pitches (anag. & lit.).

R. A. Mostyn: It’s what a beach should be – let’s play boules on it (SA + anag.).

F. R. Palmer: Like many of our beaches – sea so polluted with endless rubbish dumped in it (bul(l) in anag.).

D. R. Robinson: Like gran, moving about less with passing of time (anag. less t; gran = granulated sugar).

D. H. Tompsett: Suitable for petanque and as boules pitch (anag.).

Dr I. Torbe: Gritty, out of form, Seb labours, losing literally his last run (anag. less b r; ref. S. Coe).

Dr E. Young: As boules pitch? (anag. & lit.).

HC

M. Barley, R. C. Bell, Dr P. M. J. Bennett, A. Brash, J. M. Brown, B. Burton, C. J. & M. P. Butler, T. Clement, K. W. Crawford, D. B. Cross, G. Cuthbert, D. J. Dare-Plumpton, E. Dawid, R. Dean, R. P. Dowling, D. M. Duckworth, H. Everett, F. D. Gardiner, N. C. Goddard, H. J. Godwin, S. Goldie, M. Goodyear, R. R. Greenfield, J. F. Grimshaw, P. F. Henderson, Mrs S. Hewitt, Mrs D. B. Jenkinson, C. L. Jones, M. Kissen, A. Lawrie, J. P. Lester, J. D. Lockett, R. K. Lumsdon, B. MacReamoinn, P. W. Marlow, H. S. Mason, Rev M. R. Metcalf, C. J. Morse, A. Nash, T. Ormanroyd, R. O’Donoghue, Mrs M. A. Proffer, D. Riley, T. Russell, H. R. Sanders, J. M. Sanders, L. G. D. Sanders, T. E. Sanders, A. J. Shields, W. K. M. Slimmings, M. Small, M. C. Souster, D. M. Stanford, D. J. Starck, Ms M. Stokes, J. G. Stubbs, D. Sullivan, R. I. Sutherland, J. B. Sweeting, J. Tebbutt, G. A. Tomlinson, Ms J. Ward, A. J. Wardrop, Mrs M. P. Webber, R. J. Whale, D. Williamson.
 

COMMENTS
436 entries, about 30 with PILA for PILI (‘Sauce served up before one revealing hairs’). I see no justification for PILA and can only assume guesswork by those who chose it in preference to the correct solution. That apart, there wasn’t a lot worthy of comment this month. Adjectives always seem to cause more problems than nouns or verbs. (I really must give you a preposition or a conjunction one of these days!) The ‘as boules’ anagram was unmistakeably the neatest ploy but just too popular to earn its users more than a VHC. Rather too many of you were seduced by the golfing possibilities of the word to define SABULOSE as ‘Lyle, perhaps’ or something similar. This is a clue to a clue (Lyle = Sandy = sabulose) and quite unacceptable as such (even if the name Sandy meant ‘sand-like, etc’, which it doesn’t).
 
Please forgive a short slip for once. I’m off to Dublin for a conference for a few days and have a plane to catch. And apologies again for my stupid misspelling of OUROBOROS (nice word) in No. 932.