WordStats for Comp. 517 View the Azed Slip | ◀ 513 | 521 ▶ | Other competitions
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No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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517 | Mar 1982 | IMMORTELLE | normal | 27 |
Competition 517’s average clue lengths over 27 clues:
43 letters per clue (2 below the archive average, and 4 below the average for 10-letter words)
9.4 words per clue (0.2 below the archive average, and 0.3 below the average for 10-letter words)
Longest clue (the 166th longest normal clue in the archive)
Rile Meg (leading character) with motel getting destroyed – the blooming thing goes on for ever
77 letters, 15 words, by C. A. Clarke
Shortest clue (the 407th shortest normal clue in the archive)
Me, rot? ME? I’ll explode that!
21 letters, 6 words, by C. Allen Baker
Competition 517 has contributed 19 unique words to the clue archive:
R. Jacks | a-wilting |
M. Earle | alley-bound |
R. J. Palmer | arranger |
C. M. Edmunds | Blunt’s |
T. A. Spencer | Brook-like |
C. Allen Baker | explode |
M. Earle | floosie |
D. R. Robinson | florets |
F. P. N. Lake | Greenery |
D. Ashcroft | halved |
C. J. Morse | Helichrysum |
D. Ashcroft | honesty |
M. Earle | poesy |
N. O’Neill | purportedly |
M. G. Wilson | time’ll |
F. P. N. Lake | Torme |
A. G. Bogie | unfading |
H. R. Sanders | vandalised |
N. C. Dexter | wither |