WordStats for Comp. 452 View the Azed Slip | ◀ 447 | 454 ▶ | Other competitions
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No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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452 | Dec 1980 | DISSENTERISM | normal | 30 |
Competition 452’s average clue lengths over 30 clues:
46 letters per clue (1 above the archive average, and 1 below the average for 12-letter words)
9.2 words per clue (0.4 below the archive average, and 0.6 below the average for 12-letter words)
Longest clue (the 86th longest normal clue in the archive)
Disagreeable minority behaviour, leading to ban by English authorities, has upset Mr Stein’s side
81 letters, 14 words, by N. O’Neill
Shortest clue (the 203rd shortest normal clue in the archive)
A bent trendies miss
17 letters, 4 words, by C. Allen Baker
Competition 452 has contributed 19 unique words to the clue archive:
E. J. Burge | chapel’s |
J. C. Leyland | denies |
N. O’Neill | Disagreeable |
I. Torbe | esoteric |
I. Torbe | Essene |
W. H. Pegram | Heath’s |
T. J. Moorey | mini-dresses |
Dr P. Owen | minidress |
M. Barnes | Minster’s |
C. J. Morse | Mitredness |
H. W. Massingham | Quaker |
F. P. N. Lake | regimented |
E. J. Burge | relations |
J. F. N. Wedge | reluctance |
I. Torbe | rites |
F. B. Stubbs | sidesmen |
N. O’Neill | Stein’s |
C. Allen Baker | trendies |
D. M. Stanford | unorthodoxy |