Azed 1745 again

[rabet]

Please look at my question in the earlier thread.

[pldcav]

Thanks for the AE explanation. 32a is STOOKED, not STONKED. SO about TO, and KED is a wingless fly (something of an oxymoron!)

[rabet]

Thanks pld, yes I missed the shock of corn bit.

[Quizmonster]

Yes, Rabet, thanks for the correction. As a retired English teacher, I just knew there was a poet called 'AE'. I racked my brains over who that was on Sunday morning until the name 'A E Housman' emerged. "That's the man!" I cried. Sadly, it wasn't, but - as I'd already got the 'a' and 'e' - I wasn't too fussed about further consideration anyway.
What is beginning to surprise me is the number of people on AB who actually do the Azed. I've oftened wondered how many entries they get on average. I've won it in the past but 'earned' in prize-money nowhere nearly enough to pay for the envelopes and stamps my weekly entries have cost over the decades!

[mahonia]

I'm also a big fan of AZED and send it in most weeks - I've never won!

[pldcav]

I had a win a couple of years ago. I think I need quite a few more to cover the postage over the years! I too have often wondered how many entries there are for the non-competition weeks. I imagine quite a lot of people enter then, but don't go in for clue-writing, so my guess would be getting on for 1000 entries.

How many more start it but don't finish, and how many of those are on AB, are of course further topics for speculation ...