Name | No of clues | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
D. F. Manley | 444 | 37 | 39 | 368 | 184 |
D. F. Manley’s average clue lengths over 444 clues:
49 letters per clue (4 above the archive average of 45)
10.1 words per clue (0.5 above the archive average of 9.6)
Longest clue
Depressed a bit by nonsense showing ‘Trumpish’ audacity, Britain must stand against old-fashioned race discrimination ultimately
109 letters, 16 words, in competition 2330 BRAZEN / MOPISH (Right and Left)
Shortest clue
Proteus?
7 letters, 1 words, in competition 508 POSTURE-MAKER
D. F. Manley has contributed 361 unique words to the clue archive:
1784 | AAA |
1908 | acknowledge |
1367 | acquittal |
1130 | acreage |
757 | activate |
306 | actuality |
2530 | admittedly |
1017 | aimer |
2334 | aisles |
913 | alack |
1039 | Albert’s |
1463 | alienor |
1888 | Ambler |
1281 | ambulation |
197 | Ames |
272 | Amomum |
506 | announcing |
1559 | Anselm |
263 | arduous |
1936 | ASE |
2265 | atheist |
298 | attending |
2330 | audacity |
2578 | authorised |
2091 | averting |
774 | awry |
1967 | B-role |
2170 | Bairstow’s |
1997 | ballad |
1580 | bamboozled |
1351 | beckoning |
788 | beeline |
135 | Begad |
105 | Beheld |
1806 | Bein’ |
165 | blab |
1017 | bod’s |
762 | boist |
995 | boozed |
504 | bossy |
148 | boxing’s |
581 | breakaway |
627 | breathes |
340 | Brooke |
336 | Brut |
534 | bumped |
2296 | bunglers |
152 | calender’s |
2131 | campaigns |
2287 | Carmichael |
410 | Castor-oil |
2356 | CB |
1100 | CD |
2313 | Championship’s |
2014 | cheekily |
2023 | chimneybreast |
631 | cine-talk’s |
774 | civil |
1888 | classics |
1554 | clinging |
2547 | Clotho |
709 | co-starring |
1827 | colonials |
2040 | commends |
2274 | companions |
1737 | compelling |
1856 | conceived |
1363 | Connoisseur |
447 | conveyed |
2157 | conveying |
2100 | cosy |
2480 | cots |
404 | cradle |
2373 | Craig |
2250 | cricketers |
2412 | crucified |
701 | dab’s |
1806 | dancin’ |
406 | decade |
406 | decreases |
1901 | deletion |
1728 | Delia’s |
1654 | delights |
2578 | demystified |
1633 | Depressing |
1646 | deprivation |
1515 | designated |
1225 | detect |
2376 | devoured |
447 | diction |
1624 | diocese |
2109 | dirty |
688 | disintegrates |
1936 | disseminated |
1788 | Distillation |
1546 | ditched |
110 | Dooley’s |
2287 | Doughty |
2023 | edging’s |
1100 | Elisha |
2428 | emanating |
1593 | eme |
1541 | employee |
1113 | emptying |
2378 | enacted |
336 | enchanting |
1122 | encompasses |
1450 | encroacher |
926 | endeared |
559 | Energised |
1836 | epistle |
1294 | erection |
913 | erk’s |
1242 | Ex-leader |
530 | Exocet |
143 | explorers |
770 | exteriors |
2116 | exult |
1949 | farin’ |
1300 | Fawley |
2530 | fend |
701 | flanking |
1076 | forfeit |
1472 | fortunate |
2109 | fouled-up |
349 | fragment |
1494 | functioning |
2425 | gale’s |
2425 | Galilee’s |
1108 | garrotting |
371 | gladiator |
2183 | Glastonbury’s |
1104 | GLC |
2376 | glutton |
2395 | God-driven |
2412 | godlike |
1380 | Good-vines |
943 | Gowers |
2451 | grabbed |
1260 | grandiloquently |
2200 | Greene |
1178 | grot |
869 | Half-masked |
2023 | hall’s |
2157 | hammily |
2058 | Hardy’s |
900 | Harley |
1788 | healthier |
530 | heat-resistant |
2230 | heaven |
143 | Heaven’s |
1606 | Hebrew |
1156 | heretic |
1572 | Hilda |
2118 | hobnob |
366 | Hokes |
1750 | homage |
1624 | homophobia |
1559 | hoot |
750 | hotel’s |
1862 | Hue’s |
2300 | h’m |
1992 | ID |
238 | Imbecile |
263 | impetus |
1472 | implies |
1334 | inaccurate |
1960 | Incarnation’s |
31 | incorporates |
1641 | inseparable |
135 | invaders |
486 | Jameses |
1667 | Jericho |
447 | jerking |
1363 | jeroboam |
397 | Jewess |
2226 | kerbside |
62 | kindled |
1862 | Klee |
1156 | Lambeth |
547 | Lang |
904 | larva |
1737 | last-match |
2599 | launching |
478 | leather-bound |
491 | leg-bye |
1419 | legacy |
2551 | Lillee’s |
2165 | line-up |
406 | liquidity |
2521 | literature’s |
701 | logodaedalic |
1351 | luckiest |
1750 | luncher |
2131 | Mahatma |
1827 | Makarios |
2270 | Male-deprived |
1161 | Marian |
1897 | marshalled |
805 | Meiosis |
1694 | merits |
1013 | metamorphose |
1472 | metaphor |
2126 | minced |
1065 | misserved |
2250 | MMCCL |
770 | molluscs |
991 | Money’s |
2157 | moralism |
2338 | morts |
1232 | Mother-in-law |
1260 | mouthfuls |
1100 | New-fashioned |
1351 | ninth |
1707 | nitrogen-enriched |
250 | notched |
1247 | noticed |
2408 | nouvelle |
161 | nudging |
1334 | Oaf’s |
814 | objective’s |
250 | och |
513 | OE |
762 | OED’s |
1026 | oft-failed |
2135 | oik |
1307 | oldness |
1178 | overlooks |
805 | ovum |
1906 | oyster |
1467 | paean |
1113 | pail |
1052 | Palgrave |
45 | Palladium |
50 | papists |
1544 | pastors |
1910 | patrons |
2438 | pawned |
714 | Perceive |
92 | persuasive |
169 | perversity |
878 | piggy |
2525 | Pilate |
1476 | pine’s |
2091 | pinky |
869 | pistol-carriers |
1975 | pointers |
1325 | poplar |
1169 | prattling |
849 | previous |
2584 | prezzie |
2287 | Price’s |
2265 | Prof |
1351 | pussy’s |
190 | racialists |
105 | rainbow |
622 | rarest |
2265 | RD’s |
2438 | realign |
1550 | recited |
2595 | recollecting |
2074 | recurring |
2283 | regional |
1087 | Rehoboam |
2534 | relegated |
1814 | remissions |
2517 | reproduce |
868 | rescued |
366 | respelt |
1004 | restoration |
2000 | reunion’s |
683 | Riverside |
1779 | Ross’s |
1580 | rushes |
1078 | Sabean |
2390 | Salisbury’s |
2490 | Scream’s |
2218 | scrounger |
1533 | seaman-rimer |
2205 | secession |
1459 | seemed |
1273 | semi-spongy |
1771 | separate |
2300 | shambolic |
1472 | Siamese |
1122 | sibling |
2425 | Simon |
2105 | sinker |
1385 | situations |
818 | slumbers |
1818 | soIver |
1004 | sorely |
2425 | SOS |
1325 | spade |
2599 | spiked |
336 | splashes |
1771 | Spouse |
878 | squeaking |
757 | stiffs |
2482 | streets |
2109 | substantial |
1367 | substantive |
2313 | successively |
2603 | Sunak |
298 | supertests |
2070 | suspicious |
908 | swat |
1415 | swear |
1017 | Switzerland’s |
2556 | tailor’s |
272 | tangy |
354 | tanker |
1580 | tantalizingly |
913 | thrush’s |
610 | thuds |
2257 | thumping |
2556 | tinker’s |
600 | toilful |
934 | tongues |
301 | toplessly |
2500 | toughness |
1766 | touting |
904 | Transvaal |
2053 | trespass |
2382 | trombones |
2330 | Trumpish |
500 | tummies |
1836 | turnaround |
285 | tweeting |
1459 | twentieth-century |
294 | twinge |
1845 | umpire |
1546 | unambiguous |
1281 | unbedded |
2196 | unbending |
1034 | undermining |
722 | unending |
1180 | unhooked |
1515 | unkind |
692 | unlit |
2564 | unplaced |
2318 | unrestricted |
974 | upfront |
50 | VIII |
2356 | virtues |
2000 | Wadham |
2599 | Waitrose |
2014 | Watt |
2434 | wedged |
1818 | wheeze |
2040 | whining |
1203 | Wilson |
862 | windmill |
2279 | Winston-loving |
1818 | wised |
2027 | Woeful-sounding |
397 | womb |
688 | wondrously |
2473 | wrath |
913 | zap |
2447 | Zinfandel |