WordStats for Comp. 1398 View the Azed Slip | ◀ 1394 | 1402 ▶ | Other competitions
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No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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1398 | Mar 1999 | PERMETHRIN | normal | 22 |
Competition 1398’s average clue lengths over 22 clues:
42 letters per clue (3 below the archive average, and 5 below the average for 10-letter words)
9.1 words per clue (0.5 below the archive average, and 0.6 below the average for 10-letter words)
Longest clue (the 13th longest normal clue in the archive)
According to Scottish play, after first three characters vanish, Macbeth is at heart a potential monarch killer
93 letters, 17 words, by A. J. Dorn
Shortest clue (the 203rd shortest normal clue in the archive)
Bugs take me then … RIP
17 letters, 5 words, by G. Johnstone
Competition 1398 has contributed 14 unique words to the clue archive:
H. L. Rhodes | Aphides |
C. J. Lowe | bug-killer |
R. K. Lumsdon | Emergent |
W. Anderson | ephemeras |
J. R. Tozer | fixer |
A. J. Wardrop | Hemipteron |
Dr J. Burscough | hornet |
J. R. Tozer | millennium |
G. I. L. Grafton | no-fly |
L. Ward | rewrite |
N. C. Dexter | rose-blight |
C. J. Lowe | spraying |
A. J. Dorn | vanish |
Dr J. Burscough | whimper |