Name | No of clues | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
D. Ashcroft | 49 | 3 | 7 | 39 | 75 |
D. Ashcroft’s average clue lengths over 49 clues:
49 letters per clue (4 above the archive average of 45)
10.0 words per clue (0.4 above the archive average of 9.6)
Longest clue
Fiddler, producing wayward crescendo, ignoring finale, ignoring end of concert, botched repeats – an unrepeatable performance
105 letters, 15 words, in competition 939 A-PER-SE / ESCROC (Right and Left)
Shortest clue
A ‘B’ Reg. Cavalier? Check oil
21 letters, 6 words, in competition 1394 BERGAMOT
D. Ashcroft has contributed 51 unique words to the clue archive:
500 | Admass |
1220 | Agamemnon’s |
1234 | appro’s |
709 | Bernhard |
943 | Branagh |
943 | Breton |
443 | Bretonne |
1069 | britches |
1602 | bunkered |
1494 | Compo’s |
709 | conceded |
1598 | concoctions |
1008 | Corset-straps |
443 | crepes |
939 | crescendo |
1174 | Daisy’s |
1174 | dilly-danders |
1439 | Emburey |
913 | Entertainer |
1078 | Flask |
982 | forecasters |
1008 | Gaskell |
735 | gloamin’ |
1004 | golfclubs |
530 | Haig |
517 | halved |
517 | honesty |
1439 | hugely |
1316 | icing |
500 | imperative |
1078 | kibble |
735 | Lauder |
1069 | lengthened |
1439 | maidenless |
1598 | marg |
982 | McCaskill |
995 | monarchic |
1415 | night-clubs |
1494 | Norah |
460 | Peregrine’s |
1069 | pointlessly |
735 | roamin’ |
835 | Streetwalker’s |
1104 | Superbly |
718 | tackled |
1087 | Taverners |
982 | textbook |
718 | threequarters |
978 | uncrudely |
939 | unrepeatable |
1165 | venom |