WordStats for Comp. 2560 View the Azed Slip | ◀ 2556 | 2564 ▶ | Other competitions
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No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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2560 | Jul 2021 | BOMBAST | normal | 20 |
Competition 2560’s average clue lengths over 20 clues:
56 letters per clue (11 above the archive average, and 12 above the average for 7-letter words)
9.7 words per clue (0.1 above the archive average, and 0.5 above the average for 7-letter words)
Longest clue (the 24th longest normal clue in the archive)
Hot air activating balloons, something the Montgolfier brothers originated principally in novel fashion
90 letters, 13 words, by P. W. Marlow
Shortest clue (the 2,265th shortest normal clue in the archive)
Botham best batting without the heroics
34 letters, 6 words, by M. Lloyd-Jones
Competition 2560 has contributed 29 unique words to the clue archive:
P. W. Marlow | activating |
J. R. Howlett | arrantly |
R. Zara | articulating |
S. Randall | babies |
P. W. Marlow | balloons |
Mrs A. M. Walden | bloated |
M. Hodgkin | Bojo’s |
M. Hodgkin | bride-chamber |
J. R. Tozer | BS |
J. C. Leyland | demagogue |
P. McKenna | exordium |
C. G. Millin | highfaluting |
A. J. Wardrop | incendiary |
J. A. Butler | Macron’s |
R. Zara | magniloquence |
P. W. Marlow | Montgolfier |
R. C. Teuton | moustachioed |
C. G. Millin | officious |
Mrs A. M. Walden | oratory |
P. W. Marlow | originated |
R. Zara | orotund |
J. R. Howlett | overawes |
H. Freeman | Sambo |
J. A. Butler | sausage |
R. Zara | stereotypical |
D. & N. Aspland | Thanksgiving |
H. Freeman | tigerism |
M. Barley | trimmings |
P. McKenna | turgidity |