Name | No of clues | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Also listed as |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
E. Cross | 60 | 1 | 3 | 56 | 111 | R. Cross |
E. Cross’s average clue lengths over 60 clues:
51 letters per clue (6 above the archive average of 45)
9.9 words per clue (0.3 above the archive average of 9.6)
Longest clue
Distressed drug user starts to experience extreme reaction, encountering phoney ‘horse’ perhaps
81 letters, 12 words, in competition 1801 RUSE DE GUERRE
Shortest clues
I run one out, one who’s scored 100
26 letters, 8 words, in competition 1200 Nine letter word (C and T latent) (Letters Latent)
Writhing, Heep’s air betrays him
26 letters, 5 words, in competition 1346 PHARISEE
Prime suspect in Scotland Yard
26 letters, 5 words, in competition 1441 Word containing MM displaced by a bug (Millennium Bug)
E. Cross has contributed 54 unique words to the clue archive:
1856 | accounts |
1936 | acidity |
1936 | admen |
2023 | ambient |
1650 | aspen |
1316 | attributin’ |
1312 | batteries |
1346 | betrays |
1385 | buttery |
1472 | campers |
2019 | concordant |
1312 | current’s |
2040 | dolphins |
2019 | ear’s |
1247 | Episcopal |
1715 | exasperated |
1702 | excelled |
1480 | faulted |
1316 | Frink |
1528 | Grimsby |
1715 | hoarsely |
1884 | indulges |
1633 | Lipton’s |
1936 | lowest-alcohol |
1338 | Malpractices |
1480 | Martina |
1908 | moist |
1602 | nave |
1779 | oat |
1476 | obliterating |
1953 | occasioned |
1856 | onwards |
1351 | overdose |
1446 | Pampers |
1325 | paraquat |
1715 | parings |
1502 | pneumonia |
2045 | Puke |
1502 | rale |
1312 | recharge |
1719 | respiring |
1130 | rusticated |
1908 | samosa |
1779 | scone |
1856 | Self-advertising |
1247 | sentiments |
2040 | sighted |
1953 | stashed |
1715 | uttering |
1650 | venation |
2019 | weaver |
1784 | wipe |
1346 | Writhing |
1702 | writs |