Name | No of clues | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
A. J. Wardrop | 196 | 4 | 22 | 170 | 233 |
A. J. Wardrop’s average clue lengths over 196 clues:
48 letters per clue (3 above the archive average of 45)
9.5 words per clue (0.1 below the archive average of 9.6)
Longest clue
Restyled shako (not round) caps what’s worn by cavalry general, almost the finest at the front, in Worcester perhaps
93 letters, 19 words, in competition 1017 SCHAPSKA / PEARMAIN (Right and Left)
Shortest clue
Barking pet, say? Right!
18 letters, 4 words, in competition 1165 YAPSTER
A. J. Wardrop has contributed 150 unique words to the clue archive:
2040 | abrupt |
1402 | Afghan’s |
1766 | alfresco |
2027 | Anthem |
2019 | appeasement |
1433 | arch-conservative |
2235 | armagnac |
1580 | Austin’s |
1264 | Baboon |
2083 | backward-looking |
2330 | battalion |
486 | Beaverbrook |
2547 | bespoke |
2412 | blockage |
1489 | bon |
2451 | brainbox |
2209 | Brecht |
1676 | camiknickers |
2261 | capo |
1017 | cavalry |
1528 | caver |
2473 | chiaroscuro |
2428 | Chloe |
1156 | chorine |
1492 | circa |
2062 | coarseness |
2434 | Colombia |
1906 | competitions |
1250 | coroner |
2595 | Crawley |
1971 | crewmen |
2428 | Daphnis |
1576 | decaf |
2324 | Democrat |
2428 | Diaghilev’s |
1715 | disclose |
2330 | doldrums |
568 | draughtsman |
1672 | emotes |
2322 | endomorphic |
2250 | ENO |
2364 | enriching |
2239 | erratically |
2582 | ethical |
2338 | ex-President |
1389 | expiry |
2131 | fails |
1284 | flail |
913 | flyers |
1143 | fortunes |
1932 | fragrance |
1576 | frappe |
2248 | full-skirted |
2364 | gardeners |
2010 | GOC |
2261 | goodfellas |
1238 | granules |
2083 | Grumble |
1186 | Hattie |
1433 | hearten |
2539 | helpful |
2100 | hematinic |
1398 | Hemipteron |
2564 | Highers |
2582 | honourable |
2486 | Huawei |
2369 | humorous |
2382 | Iggy |
2578 | imposes |
2369 | impressive |
2560 | incendiary |
2040 | insensitive |
982 | intimations |
2019 | intimidate |
464 | Kashmiri |
2065 | Kidderminster |
2078 | lector |
2139 | Leftie |
2012 | Liberals |
2174 | loons |
1728 | Lux |
1342 | marauding |
2274 | Matic |
1492 | MD |
2573 | midwife |
2272 | mileage |
327 | milk-cow |
1827 | missionaries |
869 | Muggings |
2490 | Munch |
2065 | mustiness |
2551 | nobs |
1908 | Nomadically |
2318 | nonentity |
2473 | painterly |
2313 | parfait |
1463 | payable |
1728 | Pearls |
2364 | Phocas |
2425 | pimiento |
869 | preoccupy |
2334 | Rabbi |
2382 | re-form |
1544 | receptors |
1766 | Regent’s |
2027 | relict |
2091 | Remy |
2351 | Restorer |
1143 | revive |
2174 | ruffs |
1823 | Sarkozy’s |
2382 | Scabies |
2250 | Scala |
939 | scandalous |
2031 | Seamstress’s |
1611 | Secombe |
1823 | Segolene’s |
1611 | Sellers |
506 | sewer |
1017 | shako |
2012 | shiftily |
1923 | sickener |
1992 | skimmed |
2272 | sledgers |
1940 | snivel |
2434 | snorted |
2428 | staging |
1229 | sustaining |
2490 | swag |
2378 | swoon |
2543 | Tabards |
2309 | testing |
1960 | tewel |
2100 | thalassemia |
1797 | Theakstons |
371 | this-it’s |
1746 | Tonemic |
2062 | Topeka |
464 | transgression |
2096 | Travolta’s |
1229 | tremulously |
2287 | trousered |
1711 | ums |
2139 | undemocratic |
900 | unprofessional |
2551 | VIPs |
1823 | voter’s |
869 | well-to-do |
2318 | What’s-his-name |
920 | X-words |