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| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 234 | Sep 1976 | HOROSCOPIST | normal | 29 |
Competition 234’s average clue lengths over 29 clues:
50 letters per clue (5 above the archive average, and 4 above the average for 11-letter words)
10.9 words per clue (1.3 above the archive average, and 1.2 above the average for 11-letter words)
Longest clues (the 293rd longest normal clues in the archive)
Person who’s involved with the zodiac – that’s the one chosen for cluing when Azed composed
73 letters, 15 words, by G. B. Greer
Whose work concerned planets before Scorpio unfortunately displaced Libra, and after
73 letters, 11 words, by C. G. Millin
Shortest clue (the 859th shortest normal clue in the archive)
I might read poor Scot his weird
26 letters, 7 words, by Dr R. L. Wynne
Competition 234 has contributed 14 unique words to the clue archive:
| R. J. Palmer | configuration |
| T. A. Martin | determines |
| D. C. Williamson | diviner |
| C. Allen | guinea |
| E. A. Free | hunts |
| W. J. M. Scotland | interesting |
| C. G. Millin | Libra |
| C. J. Morse | occulted |
| A. J. Redstone | predictions |
| C. Allen | prognostics |
| W. K. M. Slimmings | Scorpios |
| P. Thacker | Soothsayer |
| A. H. Jones | unproven |
| G. B. Greer | zodiac |