Name | No of clues | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
N. C. Dexter | 241 | 30 | 21 | 190 | 150 |
N. C. Dexter’s average clue lengths over 241 clues:
44 letters per clue (1 below the archive average of 45)
9.5 words per clue (0.1 below the archive average of 9.6)
Longest clue
Rise at dawn – no longer dash around for rehashed breakfasts, no further fake diarising (‘Rose punctually’, e.g.) – when in trees etc songbirds follow my arrangement.
129 letters, 26 words, in competition 1810 HARE / POSEUR / SERINETTE (DLM)
Shortest clue
Ile de France
11 letters, 3 words, in competition 397 BIJOUTERIE (Misprints)
N. C. Dexter has contributed 168 unique words to the clue archive:
508 | acrobatic |
1758 | acumen |
1593 | adj |
1615 | ageing |
683 | Alcibiades |
1936 | Alkali |
1376 | Anglo |
1537 | ankles |
1567 | annus |
1052 | aping |
1043 | Arabia-bound |
866 | Ares |
1700 | avowed |
525 | back-side |
36 | barbarian’d |
1190 | Barings |
1485 | barter |
1043 | belly-dancers |
1268 | Bigears |
1814 | Billie |
1376 | Boeing |
978 | Boney |
1113 | boot’s |
1810 | breakfasts |
1762 | breeches |
1879 | bumf |
1143 | butchers |
1804 | cataracts |
1489 | CE |
801 | chine |
920 | chits |
2010 | ciggy |
774 | civet |
1351 | clinic’s |
2027 | cock-robin’s |
978 | conned |
1376 | controversial |
1232 | cowshed |
1312 | creatures’ll |
1108 | Crusading |
423 | curee |
1752 | curled |
1048 | danced |
1659 | danger’s |
753 | deb |
1238 | Deciphering |
559 | deer’s |
1810 | diarising |
379 | doddery |
1752 | dormice |
1506 | doublet |
1446 | drapes |
1360 | dubiously |
1169 | edifices |
853 | Elbe |
1875 | elevate |
559 | entrails |
1511 | epee’s |
1797 | Eros’s |
506 | escheating |
57 | examiner |
1700 | Facial |
1139 | fastened |
1074 | Fergie |
1992 | Fr |
1024 | Germans |
709 | girl-gent |
1336 | GIs |
1641 | gismos |
1804 | glare |
1043 | globetrotter |
679 | goallie’s |
1178 | goblet |
1169 | gracefully |
1908 | grew |
1836 | Hamilton |
1126 | hereat |
1134 | hic |
1567 | horribilis |
1043 | houris |
1200 | Hutton-follower |
397 | Ile |
1238 | illegible |
1567 | ingloriosus |
683 | inhabit |
1143 | inhuman |
610 | interchangeable |
757 | Junks |
2014 | Kath |
1831 | Lamia |
1871 | leafy |
1316 | lifer’s |
762 | Loeb’s |
388 | mamba’s |
965 | managing |
770 | Molluscan |
705 | Moussorgsky’s |
1143 | mums |
1034 | Murals |
1242 | necklines |
774 | Neckwear |
1567 | neque |
1389 | nervy |
404 | Nkomo’s |
1355 | no-ail |
1711 | nudism |
1048 | OAP’d |
1753 | oblong’s |
1134 | OR’s |
1351 | otologist |
358 | outshining |
1200 | Oval’s |
934 | paces |
1856 | paedophiles |
1181 | paludal’s |
1988 | pauper |
1346 | Pentateuch |
1415 | Pete |
564 | Pierpoint’s |
1840 | placing |
14 | plashed |
991 | poked |
1017 | Pole’s |
868 | portal |
1519 | printing |
506 | Provost |
705 | psychiater |
384 | pun |
1810 | punctually |
1988 | queued |
14 | Rain-storm |
750 | Randolph |
991 | Ranter’s |
603 | Reardon’s |
2027 | recital |
1988 | refill |
1398 | rose-blight |
1229 | rpt |
801 | separating |
1519 | sequels |
615 | Shortie |
1242 | silicone-enhanced |
1515 | silver-plated |
607 | Sirens |
1360 | Slough-dweller |
1810 | songbirds |
1836 | speediest |
1908 | stable’s |
1875 | stingo |
631 | Synchromesh |
1724 | thousand’s |
1762 | threepence |
757 | trafficking |
1450 | true-love’s |
1856 | under-age |
1485 | unstable |
1342 | untruth |
827 | urine-extraction |
1277 | vernal |
2027 | warbled |
1515 | ware |
2014 | Whitehorn |
506 | will-exponent |
517 | wither |
1840 | wobbly-wise |
460 | Woos |
731 | wrapping-paper |
1702 | writer’ll |