WordStats for E. Cross
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E. Cross60 1356111R. 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:

1856accounts
1936acidity
1936admen
2023ambient
1650aspen
1316attributin’
1312batteries
1346betrays
1385buttery
1472campers
2019concordant
1312current’s
2040dolphins
2019ear’s
1247Episcopal
1715exasperated
1702excelled
1480faulted
1316Frink
1528Grimsby
1715hoarsely
1884indulges
1633Lipton’s
1936lowest-alcohol
1338Malpractices
1480Martina
1908moist
1602nave
1779oat
1476obliterating
1953occasioned
1856onwards
1351overdose
1446Pampers
1325paraquat
1715parings
1502pneumonia
2045Puke
1502rale
1312recharge
1719respiring
1130rusticated
1908samosa
1779scone
1856Self-advertising
1247sentiments
2040sighted
1953stashed
1715uttering
1650venation
2019weaver
1784wipe
1346Writhing
1702writs