WordStats for Comp. 1216 View the Azed Slip | ◀ 1212 | 1220 ▶ | Other competitions
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No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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1216 | Sep 1995 | CHAPERON | normal | 24 |
Competition 1216’s average clue lengths over 24 clues:
48 letters per clue (3 above the archive average, and 3 above the average for 8-letter words)
9.4 words per clue (0.2 below the archive average, and equal to the average for 8-letter words)
Longest clue (the 905th longest normal clue in the archive)
Phone RAC: broken down Escort holding up traffic between Maidenhead and Bucks
65 letters, 12 words, by H. J. Bradbury
Shortest clue (the 1,622nd shortest normal clue in the archive)
Minder making crack about ‘’er indoors’
31 letters, 6 words, by G. I. L. Grafton
Competition 1216 has contributed 18 unique words to the clue archive:
M. Barley | carphone |
E. M. Holroyd | contingence |
S. Goldie | crocodile’s |
S. Goldie | custodian |
Dr I. S. Fletcher | flapper’s |
F. R. Palmer | Hanky-panky |
B. Hagan | Hoover |
H. J. Bradbury | Maidenhead |
J. R. Tozer | man-poacher |
C. J. Morse | outing |
B. Burton | perch |
R. R. Greenfield | protegee |
E. M. Holroyd | restricting |
R. R. Greenfield | Satellite |
R. R. Greenfield | shielding |
R. Hesketh | surrendering |
R. Hesketh | swain |
P. F. Henderson | unacquainted |