ordStats homepage| Name | No of clues | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Also listed as |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H. W. Massingham | 92 | 5 | 3 | 84 | 104 | H. Massingham |
H. W. Massingham’s average clue lengths over 92 clues:
41 letters per clue (4 below the archive average of 45)
8.7 words per clue (0.9 below the archive average of 9.6)
Longest clue
In my heart, oh, I leap, Rebecca (open to Cupid’s old skill):
Now you’re my priceless grail, Rebecca – you at your jingling till!
95 letters, 23 words, in competition 1084 PIERCEABLE / SALESGIRL (DLM)
Shortest clue
Dab, cod, smelt etc.
14 letters, 4 words, in competition 294 HUMECT
H. W. Massingham has contributed 67 unique words to the clue archive:
| 110 | adequate |
| 1234 | anarchic |
| 1008 | armchair |
| 1147 | armoury |
| 594 | Astaire’s |
| 1034 | Belcher’s |
| 1078 | bogland |
| 1238 | bottled-up |
| 1156 | canaries |
| 482 | charnels |
| 1194 | chaser |
| 1126 | chicane |
| 301 | chippies |
| 97 | chuck |
| 779 | clinch |
| 1034 | cloth’s |
| 585 | coolers |
| 615 | Eighties |
| 200 | enlightened |
| 982 | Eventful |
| 1087 | everything’s |
| 1212 | flag’s |
| 972 | funnier |
| 757 | fuses |
| 1130 | Gert’s |
| 1174 | Glenn |
| 66 | grades |
| 1387 | hallows |
| 1190 | hallucinated |
| 14 | herded |
| 1078 | hiker |
| 868 | Hornblower |
| 1084 | jingling |
| 14 | Like-pairs |
| 1180 | Luther’s |
| 1181 | merchantman |
| 618 | metrics |
| 1078 | Moorish |
| 887 | Mutation |
| 1387 | mystic |
| 727 | nest-eggs |
| 705 | neuroses |
| 1156 | ochre |
| 1087 | oiler’d |
| 1232 | outhouse |
| 456 | patter |
| 375 | petersham |
| 1017 | pip |
| 1078 | plashing |
| 835 | police-car |
| 974 | prodigiously |
| 110 | prow’s |
| 452 | Quaker |
| 1056 | ratio |
| 930 | renderings |
| 174 | repel |
| 362 | reseda |
| 930 | Satchmo |
| 882 | SIS |
| 1034 | specialty |
| 714 | Spin-off |
| 1232 | starlit |
| 469 | supplementary |
| 816 | swaddled |
| 406 | trouter |
| 750 | unco |
| 982 | Virgo |