WordStats for Comp. 1078 View the Azed Slip | ◀ 1076 | 1084 ▶ | Other competitions
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| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1078 | Jan 1993 | KIRBEH | normal | 22 |
Competition 1078’s average clue lengths over 22 clues:
44 letters per clue (1 below the archive average, and 1 above the average for 6-letter words)
9.2 words per clue (0.4 below the archive average, and 0.3 above the average for 6-letter words)
Longest clue (the 699th longest normal clue in the archive)
Leaving balmy Birkenhead is ‘Inebriate Edna’, a hag that regularly takes a skinful!
67 letters, 13 words, by D. Price Jones
Shortest clue (the 990th shortest normal clue in the archive)
Drink to live – it’s drunk from this
27 letters, 7 words, by D. Stanford
Competition 1078 has contributed 29 unique words to the clue archive:
| I. D. McDonald | Bedouin |
| G. T. Wilson | Berber |
| D. Price Jones | Birkenhead |
| H. W. Massingham | bogland |
| C. R. Gumbrell | brook |
| G. I. L. Grafton | drinking’s |
| C. J. Brougham | fakir’s |
| D. Ashcroft | Flask |
| R. R. Greenfield | hadj |
| H. W. Massingham | hiker |
| I. D. McDonald | hiker’s |
| G. I. L. Grafton | hike’s |
| C. J. Brougham | impermeable |
| B. W. Brook | khors |
| D. Ashcroft | kibble |
| P. W. Marlow | Kuwaiti |
| H. W. Massingham | Moorish |
| B. W. Brook | Nomadic |
| H. W. Massingham | plashing |
| G. I. L. Grafton | Recourse |
| D. F. Manley | Sabean |
| W. J. M. Scotland | sakieh |
| D. Price Jones | skinful |
| B. W. Brook | snorts |
| E. J. Burge | stretched |
| B. W. Brook | tribe’s |
| F. R. Palmer | Unjustified |
| N. C. Goddard | water-bottle |
| E. J. Burge | watertight |