WordStats for Comp. 135 View the Azed Slip | ◀ 130 | 139 ▶ | Other competitions
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No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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135 | Oct 1974 | GABIONADE | normal | 25 |
Competition 135’s average clue lengths over 25 clues:
47 letters per clue (2 above the archive average, and 1 above the average for 9-letter words)
10.3 words per clue (0.7 above the archive average, and 0.7 above the average for 9-letter words)
Longest clue (the 249th longest normal clue in the archive)
One topless girdle without build-up supporting with uplift blowzy female’s breastworks
74 letters, 11 words, by S. L. Paton
Shortest clue (the 1,428th shortest normal clue in the archive)
Basketwork bar becoming in a bodega
30 letters, 6 words, by A. D. Legge
Competition 135 has contributed 20 unique words to the clue archive:
F. B. Stubbs | anode |
D. C. Williamson | baskets |
A. D. Legge | Basketwork |
D. F. Manley | Begad |
S. L. Paton | blowzy |
P. D. Gaffey | breastwork |
S. L. Paton | breastworks |
A. J. Crow | Brom |
C. O. Butcher | defence’s |
E. Chalkley | defenders |
T. E. Bell | donjon’s |
L. E. Lodge | fermented |
A. H. Jones | Golombek’s |
L. E. Lodge | grape |
M. J. Suckling | Hove |
D. C. Williamson | Igloo |
D. F. Manley | invaders |
T. A. Martin | rampart |
R. Greenfield | Sconce |
C. Allen Baker | Turn-up |