WordStats for Comp. 375 View the Azed Slip | ◀ 371 | 379 ▶ | Other competitions
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No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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375 | Jun 1979 | SPREATHE | normal | 25 |
Competition 375’s average clue lengths over 25 clues:
39 letters per clue (6 below the archive average, and 6 below the average for 8-letter words)
8.8 words per clue (0.8 below the archive average, and 0.6 below the average for 8-letter words)
Longest clue (the 1,764th longest normal clue in the archive)
Chap in Devon? Rapt, he burst out with: ‘End of bowls first; Spain afterwards!’
59 letters, 14 words, by D. F. Manley
Shortest clue (the 350th shortest normal clue in the archive)
To chap ’ee wi’ t’ sharp wind
20 letters, 7 words, by N. C. Dexter
Competition 375 has contributed 22 unique words to the clue archive:
F. E. Newlove | asper |
R. J. Hooper | Asperate |
R. J. Hooper | aspirate |
L. May | begun |
W. Barrow | broadcaster |
A. D. Legge | cruelly |
T. A. J. Spencer | cuit |
Miss I. M. Raab | doen |
F. B. Stubbs | Dorset |
J. H. Dingwall | Heater |
Mrs D. Colley | hepster |
R. H. Adey | par’s |
D. P. Chappell | pasty |
F. R. Palmer | patois |
H. W. Massingham | petersham |
C. G. Millin | smock |
J. J. Moore | south-westerly |
Miss I. M. Raab | Thee’ll |
T. A. J. Spencer | therapeutics |
C. J. Morse | Thorpe |
F. B. Stubbs | villages |
Miss I. M. Raab | wraxle |