WordStats for Comp. 1901 View the Azed Slip | ◀ 1897 | 1906 ▶ | Other competitions
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No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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1901 | Nov 2008 | SANITISE | normal | 22 |
Competition 1901’s average clue lengths over 22 clues:
48 letters per clue (3 above the archive average, and 3 above the average for 8-letter words)
10.1 words per clue (0.5 above the archive average, and 0.7 above the average for 8-letter words)
Longest clue (the 109th longest normal clue in the archive)
Purge of offensive elements – from Auntie vacuous smut is (when broadcast) ‘non-U’, regardless of time
80 letters, 15 words, by C. D. S. & E. A. Field
Shortest clue (the 56th shortest normal clue in the archive)
Edit i.e. as in s**t
12 letters, 7 words, by Dr E. Young
Competition 1901 has contributed 21 unique words to the clue archive:
E. C. Lance | Antiseptic’s |
L. Ward | ASLEF |
V. Dixon | Auntie’s |
A. S. Everest | censor |
R. Hesketh | compos |
L. Ward | contingent |
D. F. Manley | deletion |
P. W. Marlow | disowning |
C. Boyd | isolating |
G. I. L. Grafton | leniency |
J. R. Tozer | marbles |
R. Hesketh | mentis |
J. C. Leyland | MRSA’s |
A. S. Everest | pagoda |
J. C. Leyland | sister’s |
L. Ward | sit-in |
R. J. Heald | Stalin’s |
A. Varney | sunlounger |
P. F. Henderson | tinies |
P. W. Marlow | uncouthness |
L. Ward | undesirable |