WordStats for Comp. 281 View the Azed Slip | ◀ 276 | 285 ▶ | Other competitions
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No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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281 | Aug 1977 | DINOCERAS | normal | 20 |
Competition 281’s average clue lengths over 20 clues:
46 letters per clue (1 above the archive average, and equal to the average for 9-letter words)
10.5 words per clue (0.9 above the archive average, and 0.9 above the average for 9-letter words)
Longest clue (the 540th longest normal clue in the archive)
Once I’d bumps on head, now not wholly visible in bones on right geological formation
69 letters, 15 words, by F. R. Palmer
Shortest clue (the 295th shortest normal clue in the archive)
I’d cone complex on head
19 letters, 5 words, by J. D. Moore
Competition 281 has contributed 26 unique words to the clue archive:
J. C. Barnes | Cairn |
J. A. Fincken | coin’s |
D. R. Robinson | Credos |
R. Jacks | decayed |
J. F. N. Wedge | delighted |
R. E. Kimmons | denizens |
J. F. N. Wedge | diggers |
R. E. Kimmons | Eocene |
C. Loving | fossilized |
C. Loving | Hollywood’s |
M. A. Cooper | homesteads |
M. A. Cooper | hominoids |
D. R. Robinson | horn |
W. Jackson | horns |
R. Jacks | lain |
W. Jackson | rewriting |
R. M. S. Cork | sandbank |
C. Loving | scenario |
D. C. Williamson | sexicorn |
W. K. M. Slimmings | stony |
R. M. S. Cork | subglacial |
R. J. Hooper | walked |
M. A. Cooper | weedy |
D. C. Williamson | whereof |
M. A. Cooper | Wrecking |
R. E. Kimmons | zoological |