ordStats homepage| Name | No of clues | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Also listed as |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. D. Laws | 52 | 5 | 4 | 43 | 76 | M. Laws |
M. D. Laws’s average clue lengths over 52 clues:
48 letters per clue (3 above the archive average of 45)
10.4 words per clue (0.8 above the archive average of 9.6)
Longest clue
The French brought up a dispute supporting a rise for air men – it was crude, but could hurt someone taking time off work, perhaps; in short, the British needing to fly
132 letters, 31 words, in competition 336 ELF-ARROW / CUTHBERT (Right and Left)
Shortest clue
I’m imbibed by society folk
22 letters, 5 words, in competition 464 SIMKIN
M. D. Laws has contributed 36 unique words to the clue archive:
| 443 | acme |
| 482 | affectedly |
| 1325 | allotment |
| 525 | backless |
| 298 | blood-letter |
| 238 | Cockney’s |
| 434 | Coe’s |
| 482 | corse |
| 513 | coy |
| 404 | creativity |
| 552 | cure’s |
| 1242 | Dammit |
| 352 | disputes |
| 294 | Dutchmen |
| 298 | Elsinore |
| 285 | enthuse |
| 705 | EPs |
| 263 | Fervent |
| 525 | incorporating |
| 454 | largesse |
| 1329 | olpe’s |
| 1250 | patient’s |
| 543 | Playfair |
| 1360 | pool-based |
| 495 | prejudicial |
| 404 | quirk |
| 419 | realism |
| 1312 | recruits |
| 276 | shipping |
| 1360 | solely |
| 314 | Songster |
| 263 | stilled |
| 352 | strung |
| 508 | troupers |
| 1325 | urtica |
| 1281 | Zealot |