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| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 506 | Xmas 1981 | ELANET | Printer’s Devilry | 30 |
Competition 506’s average clue lengths over 30 clues:
38 letters per clue (7 below the archive average, and 4 below the average for Printer’s Devilry competitions)
8.6 words per clue (1 below the archive average, and 0.4 below the average for Printer’s Devilry competitions)
Longest clue (the 44th longest Printer’s Devilry clue in the archive)
After message from host announcing Now/here!’ a lone manger was visited
58 letters, 11 words, by D. F. Manley
Shortest clue (the 3rd shortest Printer’s Devilry clue in the archive)
Has a timbr/e like lyre
18 letters, 5 words, by Dr P. W. Thompson
Competition 506 has contributed 29 unique words to the clue archive:
| D. F. Manley | announcing |
| A. K. Gregory | bikers |
| M. H. E. Watson | colours |
| Mrs M. J. Cansfield | courting |
| A. K. Gregory | cyclocross |
| Mrs S. Hewitt | Director’s |
| C. G. Millin | distresses |
| R. A. Mostyn | enthusiastically |
| N. C. Dexter | escheating |
| R. A. Burges | ex-con |
| B. A. Pike | ex-cons |
| R. A. Burges | harrow |
| Mrs A. R. Bradford | hollandaise |
| I. D. McDonald | Irving |
| Rev C. M. Broun | NALGO |
| R. A. Mostyn | outsider |
| M. H. E. Watson | picture’s |
| N. C. Dexter | Provost |
| L. C. Wright | quartering |
| M. H. E. Watson | quintessential |
| M. A. Macdonald-Cooper | sae |
| B. A. Pike | sentry |
| A. J. Wardrop | sewer |
| C. Allen Baker | swills |
| G. A. Tomlinson | T-junction |
| Mrs S. Hewitt | talents |
| Dr P. W. Thompson | timbre |
| C. Allen Baker | unheeded |
| N. C. Dexter | will-exponent |