Name | No of clues | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Also listed as |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dr S. J. Shaw | 107 | 10 | 12 | 85 | 59 | S. & J. Shaw S. J. Shaw |
Dr S. J. Shaw’s average clue lengths over 107 clues:
57 letters per clue (12 above the archive average of 45)
10.7 words per clue (1.1 above the archive average of 9.6)
Longest clue
Originally Muslim aristocratic leader in Kashmir bars shabbily presented Dervishes if whirling without special order of sherif
110 letters, 17 words, in competition 2131 DIVES / MALIK (Right and Left)
Shortest clue
Narrow boat docked quite carelessly
31 letters, 5 words, in competition 1500 GIT (on board ship) (Ship of Fools)
Dr S. J. Shaw has contributed 95 unique words to the clue archive:
2556 | abominable |
2183 | Arthurian |
2000 | Azed-ers |
2591 | bathers |
2534 | below-stairs |
2582 | betrayer |
2586 | blah |
2165 | cashpoint’s |
2517 | codex |
2447 | cognac |
2065 | coleopterans |
2091 | constitutes |
2521 | consultation |
2168 | Courtney |
2421 | cramps |
2543 | currying |
2187 | Cyclically |
2490 | Dadaism |
2131 | Dervishes |
2360 | destinations |
2460 | eaglets |
2412 | eclipses |
2019 | Egypt’s |
2239 | eject |
2595 | eleven’s |
1914 | elsewhere |
2512 | ennui’s |
2521 | etymologically |
2250 | evaluated |
2428 | exultations |
2070 | fearsome |
2395 | Framework |
2183 | Galahad |
2139 | Gallic |
2584 | garment’s |
2556 | geezer |
2296 | GMC |
2139 | guru’s |
2469 | Highland |
2040 | holiday’s |
2517 | identical |
2200 | inciting |
2200 | inns |
2324 | Jesu |
2222 | Jesus’s |
1511 | journalist |
2161 | jumbled |
2062 | knuckle-head |
2551 | Lillee |
2191 | lumen |
2325 | medieval |
2170 | Nagoya |
2250 | numerically |
2504 | optimistic |
2428 | outbuilding |
2482 | passers-by |
2428 | pastures |
2364 | patches |
2257 | pathologically |
2500 | pen’s |
2430 | personage |
2508 | pretence |
2296 | priority |
2464 | rankings |
2265 | rationalist |
2447 | Rene’s |
1771 | Repertory |
2578 | revoir |
2517 | Romanic |
2220 | Rudolph’s |
2543 | ruminant |
2338 | Russians |
1910 | schnapps |
2469 | Scot’s |
2325 | sculpting |
2131 | shabbily |
2131 | sherif |
1960 | signifying |
2113 | Smee |
1962 | spiral |
2603 | Starmer’s |
1771 | storey |
2595 | strikingly |
1914 | subsequently |
2325 | symmetrically |
1771 | theatres |
2347 | tics |
2000 | Twenty |
1511 | Underlying |
2100 | unravels |
2495 | viral |
2187 | whenever |
2330 | whilst |
2412 | worldwide |
2000 | Z |