ordStats homepage| Name | No of clues | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F. R. Palmer | 175 | 9 | 20 | 146 | 194 |
F. R. Palmer’s average clue lengths over 175 clues:
50 letters per clue (5 above the archive average of 45)
10.5 words per clue (0.9 above the archive average of 9.6)
Longest clue
Not displaying the first signs of breeding and etiquette, being churlish about returning thanks – it shows this?
92 letters, 17 words, in competition 1524 INGRATITUDE
Shortest clue
Jar, say, we’d pot grub in
18 letters, 6 words, in competition 187 POWDERING-TUB
F. R. Palmer has contributed 106 unique words to the clue archive:
| 423 | accrue |
| 1446 | admen’s |
| 419 | advertisements |
| 393 | atria |
| 1979 | Avant |
| 995 | Ayatollahs |
| 456 | Bani |
| 1143 | banos |
| 1143 | bathrooms |
| 666 | behalf |
| 1424 | believer |
| 1437 | bird’ll |
| 229 | calorie |
| 1524 | churlish |
| 393 | components |
| 610 | conjunction |
| 943 | convoluted |
| 314 | countrymen |
| 1554 | cowslip |
| 934 | crosswise |
| 618 | devastatingly |
| 590 | disappear |
| 934 | dispelled |
| 1694 | Distort |
| 961 | Drift |
| 930 | dumped |
| 666 | Ecumenical |
| 900 | Empiricism |
| 62 | engagements |
| 900 | ensured |
| 57 | expert’s |
| 216 | fearing |
| 1406 | fire-arm |
| 1424 | forbidden |
| 203 | frightens |
| 1979 | garde |
| 1307 | gimme |
| 336 | gnomes |
| 895 | ground’s |
| 600 | hale |
| 371 | half-complete |
| 1216 | Hanky-panky |
| 203 | harming |
| 1307 | helpings |
| 301 | Hill’s |
| 1139 | hold-up |
| 165 | Hooha |
| 195 | hospitals |
| 917 | identification |
| 1268 | Immortal |
| 92 | indoctrination |
| 130 | install |
| 301 | interferes |
| 1268 | Invisible |
| 891 | Korky’s |
| 866 | laced |
| 1307 | ladleful |
| 1550 | learner’ll |
| 1056 | lessened |
| 1130 | Lilting |
| 1694 | make-believe |
| 666 | mankind |
| 419 | Marlboro |
| 419 | Marlborough |
| 267 | Mayday’s |
| 1355 | medication |
| 50 | merriment |
| 840 | Meteorologist’s |
| 1128 | miser |
| 1563 | notoriously |
| 178 | Now’s |
| 922 | openness |
| 766 | oppresses |
| 1139 | out-dated |
| 70 | outcome’s |
| 1030 | pallet |
| 895 | paradise |
| 478 | part’s |
| 581 | passing’s |
| 375 | patois |
| 1667 | perimeter |
| 340 | predicated |
| 1489 | Prescott’s |
| 238 | prescription |
| 1268 | primordial |
| 332 | proceeds |
| 943 | profession’s |
| 1273 | prurience |
| 203 | psychologically |
| 965 | relics |
| 874 | ridicule |
| 165 | Scanlon |
| 456 | Show-biz |
| 332 | Silly-billy |
| 1174 | sleaze |
| 1441 | squib |
| 1008 | Swanson |
| 216 | swim-wear |
| 1130 | Swinburne |
| 229 | Tea-time’s |
| 683 | UEFA’s |
| 943 | unintelligibility |
| 1078 | Unjustified |
| 105 | warn |
| 922 | Whistleblower |
| 1694 | wrong-doing |