ordStats homepage| Name | No of clues | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D. F. Manley | 444 | 37 | 39 | 368 | 184 |
D. F. Manley’s average clue lengths over 444 clues:
49 letters per clue (4 above the archive average of 45)
10.1 words per clue (0.5 above the archive average of 9.6)
Longest clue
Depressed a bit by nonsense showing ‘Trumpish’ audacity, Britain must stand against old-fashioned race discrimination ultimately
109 letters, 16 words, in competition 2330 BRAZEN / MOPISH (Right and Left)
Shortest clue
Proteus?
7 letters, 1 words, in competition 508 POSTURE-MAKER
D. F. Manley has contributed 361 unique words to the clue archive:
| 1784 | AAA |
| 1908 | acknowledge |
| 1367 | acquittal |
| 1130 | acreage |
| 757 | activate |
| 306 | actuality |
| 2530 | admittedly |
| 1017 | aimer |
| 2334 | aisles |
| 913 | alack |
| 1039 | Albert’s |
| 1463 | alienor |
| 1888 | Ambler |
| 1281 | ambulation |
| 197 | Ames |
| 272 | Amomum |
| 506 | announcing |
| 1559 | Anselm |
| 263 | arduous |
| 1936 | ASE |
| 2265 | atheist |
| 298 | attending |
| 2330 | audacity |
| 2578 | authorised |
| 2091 | averting |
| 774 | awry |
| 1967 | B-role |
| 2170 | Bairstow’s |
| 1997 | ballad |
| 1580 | bamboozled |
| 1351 | beckoning |
| 788 | beeline |
| 135 | Begad |
| 105 | Beheld |
| 1806 | Bein’ |
| 165 | blab |
| 1017 | bod’s |
| 762 | boist |
| 995 | boozed |
| 504 | bossy |
| 148 | boxing’s |
| 581 | breakaway |
| 627 | breathes |
| 340 | Brooke |
| 336 | Brut |
| 534 | bumped |
| 2296 | bunglers |
| 152 | calender’s |
| 2131 | campaigns |
| 2287 | Carmichael |
| 410 | Castor-oil |
| 2356 | CB |
| 1100 | CD |
| 2313 | Championship’s |
| 2014 | cheekily |
| 2023 | chimneybreast |
| 631 | cine-talk’s |
| 774 | civil |
| 1888 | classics |
| 1554 | clinging |
| 2547 | Clotho |
| 709 | co-starring |
| 1827 | colonials |
| 2040 | commends |
| 2274 | companions |
| 1737 | compelling |
| 1856 | conceived |
| 1363 | Connoisseur |
| 447 | conveyed |
| 2157 | conveying |
| 2100 | cosy |
| 2480 | cots |
| 404 | cradle |
| 2373 | Craig |
| 2250 | cricketers |
| 2412 | crucified |
| 701 | dab’s |
| 1806 | dancin’ |
| 406 | decade |
| 406 | decreases |
| 1901 | deletion |
| 1728 | Delia’s |
| 1654 | delights |
| 2578 | demystified |
| 1633 | Depressing |
| 1646 | deprivation |
| 1515 | designated |
| 1225 | detect |
| 2376 | devoured |
| 447 | diction |
| 1624 | diocese |
| 2109 | dirty |
| 688 | disintegrates |
| 1936 | disseminated |
| 1788 | Distillation |
| 1546 | ditched |
| 110 | Dooley’s |
| 2287 | Doughty |
| 2023 | edging’s |
| 1100 | Elisha |
| 2428 | emanating |
| 1593 | eme |
| 1541 | employee |
| 1113 | emptying |
| 2378 | enacted |
| 336 | enchanting |
| 1122 | encompasses |
| 1450 | encroacher |
| 926 | endeared |
| 559 | Energised |
| 1836 | epistle |
| 1294 | erection |
| 913 | erk’s |
| 1242 | Ex-leader |
| 530 | Exocet |
| 143 | explorers |
| 770 | exteriors |
| 2116 | exult |
| 1949 | farin’ |
| 1300 | Fawley |
| 2530 | fend |
| 701 | flanking |
| 1076 | forfeit |
| 1472 | fortunate |
| 2109 | fouled-up |
| 349 | fragment |
| 1494 | functioning |
| 2425 | gale’s |
| 2425 | Galilee’s |
| 1108 | garrotting |
| 371 | gladiator |
| 2183 | Glastonbury’s |
| 1104 | GLC |
| 2376 | glutton |
| 2395 | God-driven |
| 2412 | godlike |
| 1380 | Good-vines |
| 943 | Gowers |
| 2451 | grabbed |
| 1260 | grandiloquently |
| 2200 | Greene |
| 1178 | grot |
| 869 | Half-masked |
| 2023 | hall’s |
| 2157 | hammily |
| 2058 | Hardy’s |
| 900 | Harley |
| 1788 | healthier |
| 530 | heat-resistant |
| 2230 | heaven |
| 143 | Heaven’s |
| 1606 | Hebrew |
| 1156 | heretic |
| 1572 | Hilda |
| 2118 | hobnob |
| 366 | Hokes |
| 1750 | homage |
| 1624 | homophobia |
| 1559 | hoot |
| 750 | hotel’s |
| 1862 | Hue’s |
| 2300 | h’m |
| 1992 | ID |
| 238 | Imbecile |
| 263 | impetus |
| 1472 | implies |
| 1334 | inaccurate |
| 1960 | Incarnation’s |
| 31 | incorporates |
| 1641 | inseparable |
| 135 | invaders |
| 486 | Jameses |
| 1667 | Jericho |
| 447 | jerking |
| 1363 | jeroboam |
| 397 | Jewess |
| 2226 | kerbside |
| 62 | kindled |
| 1862 | Klee |
| 1156 | Lambeth |
| 547 | Lang |
| 904 | larva |
| 1737 | last-match |
| 2599 | launching |
| 478 | leather-bound |
| 491 | leg-bye |
| 1419 | legacy |
| 2551 | Lillee’s |
| 2165 | line-up |
| 406 | liquidity |
| 2521 | literature’s |
| 701 | logodaedalic |
| 1351 | luckiest |
| 1750 | luncher |
| 2131 | Mahatma |
| 1827 | Makarios |
| 2270 | Male-deprived |
| 1161 | Marian |
| 1897 | marshalled |
| 805 | Meiosis |
| 1694 | merits |
| 1013 | metamorphose |
| 1472 | metaphor |
| 2126 | minced |
| 1065 | misserved |
| 2250 | MMCCL |
| 770 | molluscs |
| 991 | Money’s |
| 2157 | moralism |
| 2338 | morts |
| 1232 | Mother-in-law |
| 1260 | mouthfuls |
| 1100 | New-fashioned |
| 1351 | ninth |
| 1707 | nitrogen-enriched |
| 250 | notched |
| 1247 | noticed |
| 2408 | nouvelle |
| 161 | nudging |
| 1334 | Oaf’s |
| 814 | objective’s |
| 250 | och |
| 513 | OE |
| 762 | OED’s |
| 1026 | oft-failed |
| 2135 | oik |
| 1307 | oldness |
| 1178 | overlooks |
| 805 | ovum |
| 1906 | oyster |
| 1467 | paean |
| 1113 | pail |
| 1052 | Palgrave |
| 45 | Palladium |
| 50 | papists |
| 1544 | pastors |
| 1910 | patrons |
| 2438 | pawned |
| 714 | Perceive |
| 92 | persuasive |
| 169 | perversity |
| 878 | piggy |
| 2525 | Pilate |
| 1476 | pine’s |
| 2091 | pinky |
| 869 | pistol-carriers |
| 1975 | pointers |
| 1325 | poplar |
| 1169 | prattling |
| 849 | previous |
| 2584 | prezzie |
| 2287 | Price’s |
| 2265 | Prof |
| 1351 | pussy’s |
| 190 | racialists |
| 105 | rainbow |
| 622 | rarest |
| 2265 | RD’s |
| 2438 | realign |
| 1550 | recited |
| 2595 | recollecting |
| 2074 | recurring |
| 2283 | regional |
| 1087 | Rehoboam |
| 2534 | relegated |
| 1814 | remissions |
| 2517 | reproduce |
| 868 | rescued |
| 366 | respelt |
| 1004 | restoration |
| 2000 | reunion’s |
| 683 | Riverside |
| 1779 | Ross’s |
| 1580 | rushes |
| 1078 | Sabean |
| 2390 | Salisbury’s |
| 2490 | Scream’s |
| 2218 | scrounger |
| 1533 | seaman-rimer |
| 2205 | secession |
| 1459 | seemed |
| 1273 | semi-spongy |
| 1771 | separate |
| 2300 | shambolic |
| 1472 | Siamese |
| 1122 | sibling |
| 2425 | Simon |
| 2105 | sinker |
| 1385 | situations |
| 818 | slumbers |
| 1818 | soIver |
| 1004 | sorely |
| 2425 | SOS |
| 1325 | spade |
| 2599 | spiked |
| 336 | splashes |
| 1771 | Spouse |
| 878 | squeaking |
| 757 | stiffs |
| 2482 | streets |
| 2109 | substantial |
| 1367 | substantive |
| 2313 | successively |
| 2603 | Sunak |
| 298 | supertests |
| 2070 | suspicious |
| 908 | swat |
| 1415 | swear |
| 1017 | Switzerland’s |
| 2556 | tailor’s |
| 272 | tangy |
| 354 | tanker |
| 1580 | tantalizingly |
| 913 | thrush’s |
| 610 | thuds |
| 2257 | thumping |
| 2556 | tinker’s |
| 600 | toilful |
| 934 | tongues |
| 301 | toplessly |
| 2500 | toughness |
| 1766 | touting |
| 904 | Transvaal |
| 2053 | trespass |
| 2382 | trombones |
| 2330 | Trumpish |
| 500 | tummies |
| 1836 | turnaround |
| 285 | tweeting |
| 1459 | twentieth-century |
| 294 | twinge |
| 1845 | umpire |
| 1546 | unambiguous |
| 1281 | unbedded |
| 2196 | unbending |
| 1034 | undermining |
| 722 | unending |
| 1180 | unhooked |
| 1515 | unkind |
| 692 | unlit |
| 2564 | unplaced |
| 2318 | unrestricted |
| 974 | upfront |
| 50 | VIII |
| 2356 | virtues |
| 2000 | Wadham |
| 2599 | Waitrose |
| 2014 | Watt |
| 2434 | wedged |
| 1818 | wheeze |
| 2040 | whining |
| 1203 | Wilson |
| 862 | windmill |
| 2279 | Winston-loving |
| 1818 | wised |
| 2027 | Woeful-sounding |
| 397 | womb |
| 688 | wondrously |
| 2473 | wrath |
| 913 | zap |
| 2447 | Zinfandel |