WordStats for Comp. 482 View the Azed Slip | ◀ 478 | 486 ▶ | Other competitions
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No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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482 | Jul 1981 | BODY-SNATCHER | normal | 24 |
Competition 482’s average clue lengths over 24 clues:
48 letters per clue (3 above the archive average, and 1 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 128th longest normal clue in the archive)
Drobny cheats outrageously: his racket earned him money, but every frame he used was unofficial
79 letters, 15 words, by A. R. Ritchie
Shortest clue (the 1,622nd shortest normal clue in the archive)
Loose sod by a trench could point to me
31 letters, 9 words, by F. B. Stubbs
Competition 482 has contributed 25 unique words to the clue archive:
M. D. Laws | affectedly |
E. M. Hornby | Astonishingly |
J. F. N. Wedge | bonds |
R. S. Morse | Burke |
A. Lawrie | cemetery |
R. S. Morse | chantry |
H. W. Massingham | charnels |
B. Franco | coffin |
C. J. Morse | collaring |
G. H. Willett | commits |
M. D. Laws | corse |
A. Lawrie | dismembering |
Mrs A. R. Bradford | dissection |
E. M. Hornby | gaping |
A. J. Redstone | hugger-mugger |
A. J. Redstone | initiating |
C. G. Millin | interred |
J. F. N. Wedge | malevolently |
G. Gregory | publicise |
R. S. Morse | Ransacked |
J. P. H. Hirst | resurrectionist |
A. Lawrie | rob |
Dr E. Young | starchy |
F. B. Stubbs | trench |
D. H. Tompsett | vacated |