Azed Competition No. 187 Azed Slip | ◀ 183 | 190 ▶ | Other competitions | 
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ordStats| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 187 | Oct 1975 | POWDERING-TUB | normal | 27 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | D. V. Harry | ‘God, I burn!’ wept rakes in this | anag. & lit.; rake4 |
| Second | Rev C. M. Broun | Treatment big prude won’t have needed | anag. & lit. |
| Third | D. C. Williamson | Big undertow swirling abaft stern of ship. Salt maintains course of junk in it | p + anag.; junk = salt meat |
| VHC | T. Anderson | Wherein you may find pickled rib, e.g. put down | anag. & lit. |
| VHC | R. Brain | Where old sweat lost affection, but returned after a making up | powdering + but (rev.) |
| VHC | E. J. Burge | Wept big round tears, whereby flesh could become salty? | anag.; tears vb. |
| VHC | C. O. Butcher | Container of e.g. rib put down in pickle | anag. |
| VHC | Mrs M. J. Cansfield | Old sweater got up new – bird looks different | anag. |
| VHC | Mrs M. P. Craine | Pork-salting vat? Unhappy pig, wert bound for this? | anag. |
| VHC | S. Goldie | Where you find mart for junk – Edinburgh two p stall – no end of rubbish | anag. less h; mart2; stall = lose control, junk = salt meat |
| VHC | Mrs N. Jarman | Ow! pig! Bunter snarled, pinching a penny – that’ll cure the bully | d in anag. |
| VHC | A. D. Legge | E.g. rib put down in pickle. In this? | anag. & lit. |
| VHC | D. F. Manley | Herein dip new grub to get pickled | anag. & lit. |
| VHC | C. J. Morse | Special bath that helped sufferer with broken rib get up and down | anag. |
| VHC | Dr J. D. Ogilvie | For past hypothermic therapy: charge – less than half a shilling (plus VAT) | powder (shill)ing tub |
| VHC | F. R. Palmer | Jar, say, we’d pot grub in | anag. & lit; jar vb. |
| VHC | R. J. Palmer | Pot we’d grub in, getting pickled | anag. & lit. |
| VHC | W. H. Pegram | Butchered pig: wert bound to end up in it | anag. & lit. |
| VHC | M. L. Perkins | Wept big round tears – for bully’s treatment? | anag. |
| VHC | T. E. Sanders | Perhaps we’d put grub in this | anag. & lit. |
| VHC | W. K. M. Slimmings | Where to see well-preserved bit of skirt having bath – after applying make-up? | powdering + tub; skirt, cut of meat |
| VHC | D. A. Smith | Brine pot dug out around beginning of winter | w in anag. & lit. |
| VHC | B. Stubbs | Big pot we’d run for pickling – if we had no deep freeze | anag. |
| VHC | Dr P. W. Thompson | In it meat can be kept pickled, e.g. rib put down | anag. |
| VHC | J. A. Tyrrell | Diseased rip won’t de-bug in this – any more | anag. & lit. |
| VHC | Rev C. D. Westbrook | Put down rib e.g. to season here | anag. & lit. |
| VHC | Dr R. L. Wynne | Put big new rod in pickle. Here? | anag. & lit. |
HCs in competition 187 awarded to: