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No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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404 | Xmas 1979 | CANDLE-HOLDER | Spoonerisms | 29 |
Competition 404’s average clue lengths over 29 clues:
49 letters per clue (4 above the archive average, and 3 above the average for Spoonerisms competitions)
10.8 words per clue (1.2 above the archive average, and 1 above the average for Spoonerisms competitions)
Longest clue (the 18th longest Spoonerisms clue in the archive)
One to think with left? He’ll be cooler, with greater age, about revolutionary thought
69 letters, 14 words, by F. R. Palmer
Shortest clue (the 8th shortest Spoonerisms clue in the archive)
Dip pen for a letter with bite
24 letters, 7 words, by L. W. Jenkinson
Competition 404 has contributed 29 unique words to the clue archive:
E. A. Free | abutting |
R. Brain | artificial |
D. M. Devine | brawl |
A. J. Crow | bummer’s |
C. J. & R. S. Morse | card’s |
D. R. Robinson | chiller |
D. M. Devine | concussion |
D. F. Manley | cradle |
M. D. Laws | creativity |
P. H. Taylor | farrier |
R. J. Green | firework |
Mrs M. Kissen | hand-rolled |
D. M. Devine | head’ll |
D. M. Devine | incites |
L. E. Lodge | lender |
M. C. Souster | lieder |
C. G. Millin | mummers |
J. R. H. Jones | Mummer’s |
N. C. Dexter | Nkomo’s |
S. Holgate | paceman |
Mrs M. Kissen | packer |
A. J. Crow | ploy |
M. D. Laws | quirk |
M. C. Souster | reckoned |
R. Brain | scarer |
J. P. H. Hirst | sideways |
P. H. Taylor | sorrel’s |
F. P. N. Lake | surges |
C. J. & R. S. Morse | verser |