WordStats for Comp. 809 View the Azed Slip | ◀ 805 | 814 ▶ | Other competitions
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No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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809 | Nov 1987 | DOLCE VITA | normal | 24 |
Competition 809’s average clue lengths over 24 clues:
40 letters per clue (5 below the archive average, and 6 below the average for 9-letter words)
8.0 words per clue (1.6 below the archive average, and 1.6 below the average for 9-letter words)
Longest clue (the 1,591st longest normal clue in the archive)
Effortless affluence in TV oil ad shattered, City’s reverse intervening
60 letters, 10 words, by R. J. Palmer
Shortest clue (the 91st shortest normal clue in the archive)
Style to live, c.-à-d.?
14 letters, 5 words, by Dr I. S. Fletcher
Competition 809 has contributed 21 unique words to the clue archive:
W. J. M. Scotland | a-song |
W. J. M. Scotland | A-wine |
W. J. M. Scotland | a-women |
R. J. Palmer | affluence |
D. Pendrey | Calvinist |
H. S. Mason | Casanova’s |
F. B. Stubbs | clodhoppers |
R. J. Palmer | Effortless |
F. B. Stubbs | feather-bedding |
R. H. Adey | happily |
S. C. Ford | hedonist |
R. F. Naish | holders |
L. May | influential |
D. J. Mackay | inhabiting |
R. F. Naish | lire |
M. Earle | Luxuriation |
C. Loving | Octavia |
Mrs M. J. Cansfield | primroses |
S. Holgate | self-indulgence |
J. B. Sweeting | Swing-of-a-lifetime |
E. J. Burge | swingers |