WordStats for Comp. 956 View the Azed Slip | ◀ 952 | 961 ▶ | Other competitions
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| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 956 | Sep 1990 | SPEAR-SIDE | normal | 22 |
Competition 956’s average clue lengths over 22 clues:
44 letters per clue (1 below the archive average, and 2 below the average for 9-letter words)
9.6 words per clue (equal to the archive average, and equal to the average for 9-letter words)
Longest clue (the 794th longest normal clue in the archive)
I hold kings and jacks but no queens: playing spades to East I must enter with king
66 letters, 17 words, by H. R. Sanders
Shortest clue (the 74th shortest normal clue in the archive)
The men in trees?
13 letters, 4 words, by R. C. Teuton
Competition 956 has contributed 19 unique words to the clue archive:
| R. R. Greenfield | agnates |
| D. Buxton | barred |
| D. M. Stanford | despise |
| R. R. Greenfield | Dispraise |
| Dr I. S. Fletcher | Edberg’s |
| C. J. Brougham | Foolhardy |
| M. Barley | Hussein |
| H. R. Sanders | jacks |
| A. J. Shields | pedigree |
| J. C. Leyland | perilously |
| D. Buxton | pissed |
| S. Holgate | Pistes |
| H. R. Sanders | queens |
| C. J. Morse | rape’s |
| A. C. Morrison | speeds |
| R. F. Naish | speed’s |
| R. F. Naish | spindle |
| Dr I. S. Fletcher | Successors |
| J. C. Leyland | unsated |

