Azed Competition No. 1104 Azed Slip | ◀ 1100 | 1108 ▶ | Other competitions | 
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ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1104 | Jul 1993 | BURYING-PLACES | normal | 24 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | J. C. Leyland | Havens for those who’ve departed jumping bail, e.g. N. Cyprus | anag.; ref. Azil Nadir scandal |
| Second | C. J. Morse | Angry public revolts, wanting heads of English selectors. Ashes belong here! | anag. + E, s |
| Third | R. J. Hooper | Where ‘lads and girls … come to dust’ (which also evokes girls and boys involved with a clean-up!) | comp. anag.; ref. song from ‘Cymbeline’ |
| VHC | D. Ashcroft | Superbly menacing spinning gets men out – and they keep the ashes down under? | anag. less men |
| VHC | M. J. Bath | Playing ‘Bruce’s’ spin? At these grounds there are no quick deliveries | anag.; ref. current Test series |
| VHC | J. R. Beresford | Graves expert impresses by slurping extravagantly | ace in anag. |
| VHC | A. G. Chamberlain | Where bodies are lying, sub-crape, possibly | anag. & lit. |
| VHC | D. B. Cross | Rev up Nigel’s car by the pits? | anag.; ref. N. Mansell |
| VHC | R. Dean | Where you’ll see bugs ripen with clay decomposing? | anag. & lit. |
| VHC | C. M. Edmunds | Cairns, e.g., left up by all in grief? | anag. incl. I, & lit. |
| VHC | C. E. Faulkner-King | The last resort of most people suffering incurable gyps | anag. |
| VHC | R. R. Greenfield | Turning them up can be grisly one sees | anag. & lit. |
| VHC | J. F. Grimshaw | New version for replacing busy Chambers showing signs of decay? | anag. |
| VHC | C. R. Gumbrell | Turning which, Gray’s pen dealt with bucolic company passed over | anag. less co, & lit.; ref. Gray’s ‘Elegy’ |
| VHC | Mrs D. B. Jenkinson | Where passing bells are rung by special changes | anag. &. lit. |
| VHC | F. P. N. Lake | Linger by us with cap off | anag. & lit. |
| VHC | D. F. Manley | With GLC gone, the disposal of such could give buyer a snip | anag. incl. GLC, & lit.; ref. Lady Porter’s sale of Westminster cemeteries |
| VHC | C. Pearson | They denote interment, but scaling pyre (saving time!) is alternative arrangement | anag. less t |
| VHC | R. Phillips | One Scotch with pills swells the pancreas and binds body-cavities | yin2 GP in bur laces |
| VHC | D. R. Robinson | Forbidding Chambers, perhaps, cluing by Pears is hopeless | anag.; ref. Pears encyclopedia |
| VHC | D. H. Tompsett | Hoards of Bones – badly bungles piracy | anag.; ref. ‘Treasure Island’ |
| VHC | Ms J. Ward | Where variations on ‘Clay, be snug – R.I.P’ may be found | anag. & lit. |
| VHC | I. J. Wilcock | Rugby Special broadcast round northern pits, perhaps | N in anag. |
| VHC | W. Wynne Willson | Mongrel curs begin play where bones are found | anag. |
HCs in competition 1104 awarded to: