WordStats for Comp. 1476 View the Azed Slip | ◀ 1472 | 1480 ▶ | Other competitions
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No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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1476 | Sep 2000 | LIGNIPERDOUS | normal | 27 |
Competition 1476’s average clue lengths over 27 clues:
44 letters per clue (1 below the archive average, and 3 below the average for 12-letter words)
8.9 words per clue (0.7 below the archive average, and 0.9 below the average for 12-letter words)
Longest clue (the 249th longest normal clue in the archive)
Caterpillar in the forest could have this description: ‘Losing energy, diesel pouring out’
74 letters, 13 words, by R. J. Mathers
Shortest clue (the 752nd shortest normal clue in the archive)
Mucking good lind and osier up?
25 letters, 6 words, by C. J. Brougham
Competition 1476 has contributed 23 unique words to the clue archive:
T. J. Moorey | deploring |
R. G. Crosland | dry-rot |
A. S. Everest | guilders |
J. R. Beresford | harmful |
N. Connaughton | inordinately’s |
M. Sanderson | kauris |
C. J. Brougham | lind |
C. M. Edmunds | lupine |
H. Casson | lurgi |
C. J. Brougham | Mucking |
V. Dixon | Oaks |
E. Cross | obliterating |
C. J. Brougham | osier |
H. Casson | pines |
D. F. Manley | pine’s |
A. S. Everest | postal |
C. M. Edmunds | rabies |
E. A. Beaulah | Sergio |
C. J. Morse | soldiering |
Dr J. Burscough | spruce’s |
C. J. Morse | termite |
C. G. Millin | termites |
G. Perry | Varying |