ordStats homepage| Name | No of clues | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Also listed as |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T. C. Borland | 91 | 4 | 13 | 74 | 74 | T. Borland |
T. C. Borland’s average clue lengths over 91 clues:
44 letters per clue (1 below the archive average of 45)
8.7 words per clue (0.9 below the archive average of 9.6)
Longest clue
I’ll discard papers if their crosswords are hideous, just some show-off or pseud overdoing contrivance to grind solvers down – I’ll stick to a setter I enjoy!
126 letters, 26 words, in competition 1810 HARE / POSEUR / SERINETTE (DLM)
Shortest clue
Sucker, take in
12 letters, 3 words, in competition 2096 TRICK
T. C. Borland has contributed 67 unique words to the clue archive:
| 2412 | Abu |
| 2534 | bather’s |
| 1792 | bluegrass |
| 2417 | Brexiteer’s |
| 2205 | Burmese |
| 2220 | carols |
| 2122 | citoyen |
| 2421 | coil’s |
| 2480 | conks |
| 2078 | Corleone |
| 2430 | Crewe’s |
| 1984 | crux |
| 2469 | despatching |
| 2412 | Dhabi |
| 1762 | dictated |
| 1792 | dismays |
| 2369 | Fiat |
| 2083 | Gewicht |
| 1866 | Glenmorangie |
| 2220 | glitz |
| 2473 | grid’s |
| 2300 | Hammersmith’s |
| 2205 | harassed |
| 2334 | helluva |
| 2053 | Hibernian |
| 2556 | Hogarth |
| 2131 | Ikea |
| 2417 | incumbent |
| 1801 | infiltrating |
| 2300 | intertwining |
| 2425 | lino |
| 2248 | lite |
| 2532 | littlest’s |
| 2556 | lowlife |
| 1801 | Maginot’s |
| 2525 | melodious |
| 2053 | midway |
| 2534 | modestly |
| 2170 | Narita |
| 2257 | nesting |
| 1810 | overdoing |
| 2512 | Parade’s |
| 1853 | Persist |
| 2434 | pesky |
| 2122 | politesse |
| 2517 | precisely |
| 2495 | procure |
| 2139 | QE |
| 2464 | rapier |
| 2187 | reddest |
| 2218 | referring |
| 2226 | Reprehensibly |
| 2395 | repressed |
| 2369 | scrappage |
| 2434 | scuttled |
| 1762 | sniffily |
| 2325 | Solomon |
| 2239 | Sprite |
| 2131 | surplus |
| 2222 | Tebbit’s |
| 2595 | thwarting |
| 2403 | traders |
| 2265 | trip’s |
| 2334 | VW |
| 2334 | wail |
| 1927 | Wayne’s |
| 2547 | woof |