Clues from Azed Competition 853

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No.	Date	Clue word	Clue type	Clues
853	Sep 1988	DEBACLE	normal	23

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Competition 853’s average clue lengths over 23 clues:

48 letters per clue (3 above the archive average, and 4 above the average for 7-letter words)

10.3 words per clue (0.7 above the archive average, and 1.1 above the average for 7-letter words)

Longest clue (the 314th longest normal clue in the archive)

Cracking the last two letters in Scrabble! As a start, the first five are easily deployed

72 letters, 16 words, by L. J. Davenport

Shortest clue (the 747th shortest normal clue in the archive)

Rush entry up by taxi in strike

25 letters, 7 words, by C. J. Brougham

Competition 853 has contributed 15 unique words to the clue archive:

C. A. Clarke	Aldridge
E. J. Burge	becalmed
R. F. Naish	Bedser
F. P. N. Lake	blacked
S. C. Ford	Border’s
A. H. Jones	cabled
R. Hooper	debar
Mrs A. R. Bradford	Debenham
F. P. N. Lake	EETPU
N. C. Dexter	Elbe
F. P. N. Lake	kaput
H. Freeman	medal
G. P. Conway	socialite’s
C. J. Brougham	taxi
H. J. Bradbury	wash-out

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This situation with letters in extremis could make you cable Azed Elbe with extremes of cold possibly needs one to break it Seb Coe medal blunder some in selection Entries to Competition Azed being held up in strike disaster Entries to COMPETITION AZED being held up by strike it may be a wash-out First three in Debenham sale wanting a hat caught in stampede Rush entry up by taxi in strike This absorbing bit of mail could become becalmed Disaster Rush managed to return North almost back in the end of Aldridge Disastrous conclusion socialite's presentation leads to this perhaps if non-U Cracking the last two letters in Scrabble As a start the first five are easily deployed Crash EC bedlam with millions lost in panic A Border's knocked up 150 prior to English collapse Channel rises and one's left in sudden flood Half of MCC able bats That won't debar English collapse E g this month's competition entry possibly cabled around the 8th of September EETPU blacked and could be kaput End this break-up Possible result of bad leg with Coe being out leading pair for Gold both missing The French front five in a scrum collapse A flop Plot needs a lift and a fifty per cent cut Dee would have melting ice table with it breaking out Taking last three for nought Alec Bedser compounded collapse What lower class supplanting society would surely produce