WordStats for Comp. 1648 View the Azed Slip | ◀ 1646 | 1650 ▶ | Other competitions
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No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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1648 | Xmas 2003 | MAGIC LANTERN | normal | 27 |
Competition 1648’s average clue lengths over 27 clues:
51 letters per clue (6 above the archive average, and 4 above the average for 12-letter words)
10.3 words per clue (0.7 above the archive average, and 0.5 above the average for 12-letter words)
Longest clue (the 249th longest normal clue in the archive)
It throws light, picturing sages, cold by end of travel, before king, the centre of attention
74 letters, 16 words, by J. B. Sweeting
Shortest clue (the 545th shortest normal clue in the archive)
I entrance with glam slides
23 letters, 5 words, by C. J. Morse
Competition 1648 has contributed 25 unique words to the clue archive:
J. P. Lester | anent |
M. McMahon | arc-light |
M. Barnes | cine-art |
B. Burton | emigrant |
J. P. Lester | glim |
B. Cheesman | half-glimpsed |
P. F. Henderson | indefinable |
M. Barnes | Lang’s |
J. P. Guiver | Mercator |
D. C. Clenshaw | mingle |
C. Loving | novelty |
J. P. Guiver | orb |
P. L. Stone | phantasmagoria |
D. C. Clenshaw | photographs |
J. B. Sweeting | picturing |
D. Arthur | ripple |
J. B. Sweeting | sages |
D. W. Grice | screen-lit |
C. A. Clarke | shining |
B. Cheesman | Spry |
C. A. Clarke | tableau |
D. C. Clenshaw | translucent |
B. Cheesman | transparency |
B. Cheesman | twiddling |
A. J. Dorn | vivid |