Azed

Azed 2674

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Please excuse a rather terse blog – I’ve been away and had to write it in a bit of a hurry. I hope anything I haven’t said is verifiable in Chambers. Thanks to … Read more >>

Azed No. 2,673 Plain

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The usual display of words which are either completely unknown or have a sense that is hidden away in the depths of the entry in Chambers, but all of which seem to be explicable. How on earth Azed produces them without electronic aids (as I think is the case) always amazes me.

I think six of the clues are of the form ‘xxxx? yyyy’, an Azed characteristic. Usually (but not always) the xxxx is the definition.

Definitions in italics, underlined in crimson. Anagrams indicated *(like this) or (like this)*, depending on whether the anagram indicator precedes or follows.

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Azed 2671

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Azed 2671 is a plain puzzle       I am defeated by the word play for CABLET at 4 down.  In fact, I’m not a hundred percent sure of the definition.  I … Read more >>

Azed 2668

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A medium-strength offering from the master, challenging and instructive as ever. Thanks to Azed. Rather unusually, the rubric mentions three “problematic” answers: two that are not in Chambers, and one abbreviation. Azed sometimes … Read more >>

Azed No. 2,667 Plain

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What one expects from Azed: sound clueing, lots of crazy words that need a copy of Chambers, and all very enjoyable.

Definitions in crimson, underlined. Anagram indicators in italics and shown *(like this) or (this)*

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Azed 2665

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A mid-month puzzle from Azed is usually a plain puzzle, as this one is.     I got off to a good start, possibly because there were quite a few ‘everyday’ entries, but … Read more >>

Azed No. 2,663 – Competition Puzzle

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I’m afraid this puzzle defeated me. I think I have all the answers, but there are two where I am sure the answer’s right, but I couldn’t parse (SASTRA and TEAN), and one (INTROLD) where I’m not sure of the answer becasue I can’t find a definition that matches the clue.

This was tougher than most of the recent Azed’s I’ve had to blog, and it saw me referring more than normal to Chambers, where I found a load of words that I had never come across before, among them FINNAC, CHI-RHO, SASTRA, INTROLD, JARULS, KAHAL and RAHU. I was so disprited that I didn’t even try to come up with a clue for SONDAGE.

 

Thanks Azed

 

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Azed 2662

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I found this a bit of a slow solve, perhaps because of a higher-than-usual proportion of unfamiliar words. Fortunately I managed to get there in the end. of Thanks to Azed.   Across … Read more >>