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 |