WordStats for Comp. 1385 View the Azed Slip | ◀ 1380 | 1387 ▶ | Other competitions
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No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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1385 | Dec 1998 | PANTRIES | normal | 24 |
Competition 1385’s average clue lengths over 24 clues:
41 letters per clue (4 below the archive average, and 4 below the average for 8-letter words)
8.3 words per clue (1.3 below the archive average, and 1.1 below the average for 8-letter words)
Longest clue (the 905th longest normal clue in the archive)
Spence and suchlike characters starting postwar architecture with new aims
65 letters, 10 words, by C. R. Gumbrell
Shortest clue (the 859th shortest normal clue in the archive)
Pints are pulled in stillrooms
26 letters, 5 words, by Ms B. J. Widger
Competition 1385 has contributed 15 unique words to the clue archive:
R. J. Hooper | apprehending |
C. R. Gumbrell | architecture |
A. Hall | butter-prints |
E. Cross | buttery |
D. H. Tompsett | commissariat |
C. J. Morse | examines |
C. J. Brougham | linen’s |
C. R. Gumbrell | postwar |
J. R. Tozer | servants |
R. J. Whale | sites |
D. F. Manley | situations |
C. R. Gumbrell | Spence |
Ms B. J. Widger | stillrooms |
J. M. Ballard | tiers |
C. J. Brougham | Tuttle |