Azed Competition No. 2469  Azed Slip  |  ◀  2464  |  2473  ▶  |  Other competitions  |  ordStats
No.DateClue wordClue typeClues
2469 Oct 2019GUDDLE Spoonerisms22

 

AwardClue writerClueExplanation
FirstR. J. HealdSunday’s Mass beginning to grate forces Catholic to leave foldSandy’s muss; g for C in cuddle; fold = embrace
SecondJ. C. LeylandGaultier urges dress designers, primarily the French, to tackle kitsch?tickle catch; first letters + le
ThirdA. ChamberlainIndulged in chicanery, leaving NI upset and Dublin mad?dabble in mud; anag. less anag; ref. Brexit
VHCM. BarleySunday’s mass the reverend held in simple English, avoiding LatinSandy’s muss; DD in gul(L) + E; simple n
VHCT. C. BorlandCrook old judge, despatching preliminaries, calls up at Baileyballs-up at ceilidh; anag. less first letters
VHCC. A. ClarkePromiscuous dude with good looks initially dazzled frumpfrazzled dump; anag. incl. g, l
VHCW. DreverA tight wrangle thwarted leaders of EU and UK getting ‘leave deal’ doneright tangle; anag. of first letters
VHCDr I. S. FletcherPocketing two pennies, heartless cunning dip lands in hock perhapshands in loch; d, d in gu(i)le
VHCJ. GrimesDirect debit involved in gold tip for diddlersdip for tiddlers; DD in gule
VHCM. HodgkinTo patch car by hand, say, plastered glue round sides of dashboardcatch parr; d, d in anag.
VHCT. J. MooreyMogg to a fan in Scotland? Government dude cleverly introducing Latinfog to a man; G + L in anag.; ref. Jacob Rees-M.
VHCR. J. SharkeyMischievous daughter glued Tim’s tackleTam’s tickle; anag. incl. d
VHCDr S. J. ShawScot’s good eating starters of delicious lemon pickle under tarts of Highland trouttickle underparts; first letters in gude
VHCC. ShortGnu decimated and landscape emptied – result of whopping slaughter in the Lowlands?slopping water; first and last letters; ref. Scottish/African lowlands
VHCI. SimpsonSplash gladly in the men’s – flush once when pressure’s goodmadly … glens; g for p in puddle
VHCP. TharbyDeal for fab antiquity such as Scottie turned upfeel for dab; eld dug (rev.)
VHCA. J. VarneyGrab from water, by hair bands, daughter slipping in muddy deluge, losing footingbare hands; d in anag. less e
VHCJ. Vincent & Ms R. PorterBits of granite unearthed during drilling left enormous rickle in tunneltickle in runnel; first letters
VHCMrs A. M. WaldenGood Dudley mostly settled mad Bessbad mess; g + anag. less y; ref. Elizabeth I
VHCMs S. WallaceTots skip off eluding touch of discipline when home is left behindScots tip; anag. incl. d less in
VHCR. J. WhaleEg Ludd after vandalizing mangle annually?angle manually; anag.; ref. Ned L.
VHCA. WhittakerAberdonians grunt in rivers, hoping gold’s to be found around sources of Dee and DonAberdonian’s hunt … groping; D, D in gule
 

HCs in competition 2469 awarded to:

D. & N. AsplandA. & R. HadenC. G. MillinA. Sudbery
Ms K. BoltonG. JohnstoneT. D. NichollK. Thomas
A. BrashE. C. LanceR. J. PalmerJ. R. Tozer
Mrs S. BrownJ. LiddleM. L. PerkinsA. Vick
Dr J. BurscoughM. Lloyd-JonesS. ReszetniakA. J. Wardrop
P. CargillD. F. ManleyJ. Smailes 
H. FreemanP. W. MarlowP. A. Stephenson