Name | No of clues | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Also listed as |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
C. Allen Baker | 80 | 3 | 10 | 67 | 72 | C. A. Baker |
C. Allen Baker’s average clue lengths over 80 clues:
43 letters per clue (2 below the archive average of 45)
10.1 words per clue (0.5 above the archive average of 9.6)
Longest clue
With gifts weighed down, frost-flecked, adorned,
And star above, ye wise men three-O,
‘Tis little wonder, sirs, that ye
Might well be termed a Christmas tree-O
123 letters, 26 words, in competition 143 Jingle for BALTHAZAR, MELCHIOR, CASPAR (A jingle)
Shortest clue
A bent trendies miss
17 letters, 4 words, in competition 452 DISSENTERISM
C. Allen Baker has contributed 58 unique words to the clue archive:
622 | Adams |
662 | adjustable |
456 | Barnum |
662 | bulge |
75 | caterer |
250 | clothe |
310 | coiled |
259 | conducive |
336 | corridor |
139 | Court’s |
45 | disfavoured |
238 | Doggerel |
31 | equipment’s |
517 | explode |
57 | fixture |
358 | fraught |
143 | frost-flecked |
156 | frowzy |
225 | gill |
388 | lexical |
208 | lightest |
618 | lobbed |
208 | Lofty |
618 | McEnroe |
675 | mewing |
27 | midday |
504 | milkman |
174 | mystical |
552 | Nightingale’s |
156 | overfond |
558 | pantomimes |
208 | pie-maker |
139 | pilferer |
447 | psora |
568 | raider |
397 | Rickshaws |
110 | slackly |
556 | snapping |
384 | spud-eating |
169 | squeezed |
506 | swills |
556 | tape |
57 | tea-urn |
88 | temperature-raiser |
143 | termed |
143 | three-O |
143 | Tis |
118 | titters |
143 | tree-O |
452 | trendies |
662 | truss |
135 | Turn-up |
506 | unheeded |
247 | vibration |
495 | wallow |
143 | weighed |
229 | workings |
216 | youngster’s |