WordStats for Comp. 2265 View the Azed Slip | ◀ 2261 | 2270 ▶ | Other competitions
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No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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2265 | Nov 2015 | ESPRIT FORT | normal | 22 |
Competition 2265’s average clue lengths over 22 clues:
53 letters per clue (8 above the archive average, and 6 above the average for 10-letter words)
10.0 words per clue (0.4 above the archive average, and 0.3 above the average for 10-letter words)
Longest clue (the 39th longest normal clue in the archive)
Turbulent priest receives knight’s terminal stab, having rebuffed king who opposes Church’s authority?
86 letters, 13 words, by R. J. Heald
Shortest clue (the 203rd shortest normal clue in the archive)
High priest? Pah, say I
17 letters, 5 words, by R. J. Whale
Competition 2265 has contributed 28 unique words to the clue archive:
D. F. Manley | atheist |
Mrs D. B. Jenkinson | bien |
T. J. Moorey | Chilcot |
R. J. Heald | Church’s |
R. Gilbert | Enlightenment |
G. I. L. Grafton | grumbling |
T. J. Moorey | independently |
D. K. Arnott | Libertine’s |
R. J. Whale | Pah |
Mrs D. B. Jenkinson | pensant |
R. S. Morse | persecuted |
D. F. Manley | Prof |
D. P. Shenkin | profs |
Dr S. J. Shaw | rationalist |
A. Plumb | rationally |
D. F. Manley | RD’s |
M. Barker | redraft |
A. Whittaker | remorselessly |
R. Gilbert | savants |
J. Vincent & Ms R. Porter | sceptical |
M. A. Macdonald-Cooper | self-portrait |
D. K. Arnott | sportif |
D. K. Arnott | sportives |
A. Plumb | spotter |
G. I. L. Grafton | superstore’s |
K. Milan | tampered |
T. C. Borland | trip’s |
M. A. Macdonald-Cooper | Wry |