WordStats for Comp. 1260 View the Azed Slip | ◀ 1255 | 1264 ▶ | Other competitions
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No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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1260 | Jul 1996 | OUT-AND-OUT | normal | 22 |
Competition 1260’s average clue lengths over 22 clues:
44 letters per clue (1 below the archive average, and 2 below the average for 9-letter words)
7.9 words per clue (1.7 below the archive average, and 1.7 below the average for 9-letter words)
Longest clue (the 618th longest normal clue in the archive)
Absolutely devastating to Ulster Unionist to embrace rising Nationalist party
68 letters, 10 words, by C. A. Clarke
Shortest clue (the 56th shortest normal clue in the archive)
Five star or B & B?
12 letters, 5 words, by J. C. Leyland
Competition 1260 has contributed 12 unique words to the clue archive:
W. Wynne Willson | able-bodied |
W. Wynne Willson | convalescent |
D. J. Dare-Plumpton | Dole’s |
D. F. Manley | grandiloquently |
D. F. Manley | mouthfuls |
T. J. Moorey | muster |
C. A. Clarke | Nationalist |
R. J. Hooper | nips |
A. P. Vincent | reservations |
J. R. Beresford | Teetotal |
R. J. Whale | Turandot |
M. Coates | Unreservedly |