{"id":6343,"date":"2026-01-27T19:22:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T19:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/?p=6343"},"modified":"2026-01-27T19:22:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T19:22:39","slug":"azed-cwc-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/azed-cwc-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Azed Clue Writing Competition &#8211; Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Slip for Azed comp 2,733 has been published, and is available at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossword.org.uk\/Azed2773.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.crossword.org.uk\/Azed2773.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the last, and surely the most poignant, Slip of them all, since Azed communicates in it his decision to step down from his duties in respect of the clue-writing competition and reflects on his 54-year tenure. His wife, Ali, adds some further thoughts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His is an extraordinary achievement, which I can say with complete confidence will never be matched (incidentally, I reckon he must have judged around a quarter of a million clues). My sincere thanks to him, not least for the cruciverbal wisdom that has been packed into the Slips over the years &#8211; as readers will know, I frequently refer back to them when discussing the art of clue writing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We look forward to continuing to receive our monthly Azed puzzles for as long as he wishes to produce them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The final Azed Competition Annual Honours List is also published:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossword.org.uk\/AZAH2526.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.crossword.org.uk\/AZAH2526.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final Azed Slip has been published<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6346,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343\/revisions\/6346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}