Name | No of clues | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Also listed as |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
R. J. Whale | 164 | 12 | 20 | 132 | 201 | R. Whale |
R. J. Whale’s average clue lengths over 164 clues:
47 letters per clue (2 above the archive average of 45)
10.0 words per clue (0.4 above the archive average of 9.6)
Longest clue
Help run a rehab centre, soup kitchen or medical charity – I want to be seen to encourage interest in organ donation
93 letters, 21 words, in competition 1810 HARE / POSEUR / SERINETTE (DLM)
Shortest clues
Dodgy RE? He’s got a lot
17 letters, 6 words, in competition 1559 THEOLOGASTER
High priest? Pah, say I
17 letters, 5 words, in competition 2265 ESPRIT FORT
R. J. Whale has contributed 142 unique words to the clue archive:
2373 | accruing |
2495 | advances |
2573 | Alpino’s |
2469 | annually |
1733 | APR |
1541 | arch-spy |
2573 | ascent |
1676 | Atkinson |
2495 | ATM |
1806 | Bacchus |
1367 | bans |
2543 | bindings |
1091 | Bing |
1147 | blossom |
2218 | blustering |
2200 | booze-up |
2324 | bristlecone |
1485 | BSE’s |
2539 | campaigners |
1489 | cf |
1680 | chamberpot |
2291 | citizens |
2139 | CK |
2539 | CND |
1949 | concocting |
2139 | decrees |
2360 | depiction |
2006 | donors |
1367 | dress-code |
1762 | Dury |
943 | d’oil |
1810 | encourage |
2386 | Ern |
1897 | erode |
1596 | Euro-traveller |
2403 | exemplify |
1936 | experiments |
2543 | fall-out |
2144 | feathery |
1255 | ferried |
2283 | flip-flops |
2539 | forgo |
2148 | free-flowing |
1676 | g-gem |
1960 | gaga-land |
1711 | gallon |
2078 | Galloway |
2183 | Gawain |
2235 | Generously-filled |
2109 | Greaves |
1433 | Guppy’s |
2456 | gut-rot |
1351 | handsome |
2053 | Haydon |
2122 | HC |
1572 | Hel |
908 | hing |
2386 | humorously |
473 | hurrying |
1415 | italic |
1960 | Jersey |
1207 | KO’ing |
2403 | Laertes |
943 | Langue |
1200 | Lara’d |
2261 | Lasagne |
2330 | listless |
2469 | Ludd |
1480 | Luke’s |
2283 | magasin |
2469 | mangle |
2078 | maverick |
1676 | mic |
558 | mid-summer |
2360 | Mondays |
2360 | must-see |
2447 | Negronis |
1918 | Nepalese |
2512 | newly-wed |
2218 | Nige’s |
2279 | nines |
2062 | non-PC |
2287 | Not-quite |
2330 | NZ |
1459 | Oast |
2272 | Oman’s |
473 | Oo |
1203 | overheated |
2265 | Pah |
1949 | Perrins |
1814 | pert-ish |
558 | Pier’s |
2438 | pignorated |
238 | poets |
1207 | presaging |
2031 | queenly |
2040 | Ramsay |
649 | rasorial |
2351 | reddish |
1784 | reformatory |
1879 | remainder’s |
2525 | repackage |
1663 | resetting |
2261 | rigatoni |
2482 | Roxy |
2412 | Saudis |
2062 | sawney |
1936 | schools |
2364 | shampoo |
2412 | Shapeless |
1385 | sites |
908 | smattering |
2504 | Smiley |
1312 | snooker |
1733 | somewhere |
2490 | Spacey |
2152 | Specsavers |
1334 | Sphenisciformes |
2279 | splinters |
2070 | sported |
2490 | springs |
1698 | SR |
1485 | stock’s |
1711 | take-away |
2360 | Tanner |
1700 | tea-time |
1611 | teller |
2006 | tend |
1694 | thickness |
1322 | threes |
2586 | tinctures |
2456 | transitive |
1268 | trig |
1260 | Turandot |
1663 | ulna |
1762 | unavailable |
2040 | unavoidable |
2287 | upwardly-mobile |
2469 | vandalizing |
2126 | weed’s |
1268 | Wranglers |
2062 | yankee |