Clues from Azed Competition 1238

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No.	Date	Clue word	Clue type	Clues
1238	Feb 1996	ELASTIN	Printer’s Devilry	27

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Competition 1238’s average clue lengths over 27 clues:

43 letters per clue (2 below the archive average, and 1 above the average for Printer’s Devilry competitions)

9.2 words per clue (0.4 below the archive average, and 0.2 above the average for Printer’s Devilry competitions)

Longest clue (the 16th longest Printer’s Devilry clue in the archive)

Deciphering one memorial myopic found a real pigst/y (inscription illegible)

64 letters, 10 words, by N. C. Dexter

Shortest clue (the 12th shortest Printer’s Devilry clue in the archive)

I shriek if, e/g, I’ve sat on a bee!

23 letters, 9 words, by E. M. Holroyd

Competition 1238 has contributed 35 unique words to the clue archive:

J. W. Artley	album
P. Biddlecombe	Bartok
D. R. Robinson	Bartok’s
H. W. Massingham	bottled-up
G. Cuthbert	canning
M. C. Souster	Chank
C. J. & M. P. Butler	Dangerous
N. C. Dexter	Deciphering
C. J. & M. P. Butler	eger
D. R. Robinson	encouraged
D. V. Harry	FA-style
B. Burton	face-cream
D. V. Harry	fatigue
C. J. Brougham	fey
M. Barley	forages
J. R. Beresford	gating
C. J. Brougham	giants
A. J. Wardrop	granules
J. R. Tozer	haplessly
D. Giles	hotpot
N. C. Dexter	illegible
G. I. L. Grafton	Marilyn
P. Biddlecombe	Mikrokosmos
C. J. Morse	non-worker
F. P. N. Lake	pans
J. R. Tozer	picnicker
C. J. Brougham	pixies
D. Giles	Polly
M. Barley	redwing
D. V. Harry	Replaying
J. R. Beresford	Sassenach
D. V. Harry	Shoot-outs
A. Hart	shopkeeper
E. M. Holroyd	shriek
V. G. Henderson	tact

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As a non-worker the faithful drone does the Queen beg favours Marilyn Monroe was a damsel town people adored Replaying drawn Cup match means fatigue FA-style Shoot-outs are better A song Memory of the Sixties I should like to keep this album perhaps In the wood you'll often find redwing forages A Sassenach thinks the gating fellow Mrs Bartok watched by son Peter playing Mikrokosmos on the piano Great giants have emotions and fey pixies do I'm aging Freedom from wrinkles the face-cream ad said Dangerous eger brought in on the tide Thanks to Tories railways alter city services withdrawn Industry relies on step late in the canning process Deciphering one memorial myopic found a real pigsty inscription illegible Basil seen in hotpot Bully better without basil says Polly Aged cops aid that felon must be thick I told the shopkeeper the bloomers were too small and the baggy size In news a man dies tact seems to become most important I shriek if eg I've sat on a bee Cook's choice pans of stew are sold in no time Some university types rate chance of finding alternative to a levy It's not like the MO sot with all that bottled-up fizz Young Mrs Bartok's encouraged by musical pieces Chank Something no posh woman would buy Art critic reels off as picture is acclaimed What might picnicker haplessly sitting on beef eg on rump say One cannot exactly describe gravy granules Terrorist sin is raging blow for peace