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| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1043 | May 1992 | PESTO | Printer’s Devilry | 25 |
Competition 1043’s average clue lengths over 25 clues:
43 letters per clue (2 below the archive average, and 1 above the average for Printer’s Devilry competitions)
8.6 words per clue (1 below the archive average, and 0.4 below the average for Printer’s Devilry competitions)
Longest clue (the 2nd longest Printer’s Devilry clue in the archive)
Arabia-bound globetrotter expects belly-dancers and ho/uris – providing such entertainment!
77 letters, 9 words, by N. C. Dexter
Shortest clues (the 70th shortest Printer’s Devilry clues in the archive)
Re: Porterho/use Blue. Book? Sex tract!
29 letters, 6 words, by Mrs P. Edwards
Cooks’ wi/ves to get sparkling rings?
29 letters, 6 words, by S. J. O’Boyle
Competition 1043 has contributed 33 unique words to the clue archive:
| G. I. L. Grafton | accumulated |
| N. C. Dexter | Arabia-bound |
| R. C. Teuton | atrophy |
| N. C. Dexter | belly-dancers |
| Mrs M. P. Webber | colleen’s |
| R. C. Teuton | crows |
| G. I. L. Grafton | dampened |
| P. F. Henderson | Docks |
| T. J. Moorey | enhances |
| C. J. Morse | expose’s |
| C. R. Gumbrell | federalists |
| N. C. Dexter | globetrotter |
| R. A. Mostyn | Gooch |
| R. C. Teuton | hawk |
| A. Lawrie | holidaymakers |
| N. C. Dexter | houris |
| A. Lawrie | houri’s |
| Mrs K. Bissett | leaning |
| Mrs K. Bissett | likened |
| C. J. Morse | Marie’s |
| R. A. Mostyn | pencil |
| Mrs P. Edwards | Porterhouse |
| R. J. Hooper | raspberry |
| R. A. Mostyn | scorer’s |
| A. L. Dennis | seas |
| M. Coates | secondary |
| R. A. Mostyn | sharpener |
| S. J. O’Boyle | sparkling |
| R. R. Greenfield | stumbled |
| P. F. Henderson | swoop |
| R. J. Palmer | unsafe |
| Mrs J. Waldren | watching |
| S. Goldie | wolf-pack |