WordStats for Comp. 430 View the Azed Slip | ◀ 426 | 434 ▶ | Other competitions
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No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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430 | Jul 1980 | TEGULA | normal | 28 |
Competition 430’s average clue lengths over 28 clues:
43 letters per clue (2 below the archive average, and equal to the average for 6-letter words)
9.9 words per clue (0.3 above the archive average, and 1 above the average for 6-letter words)
Longest clue (the 540th longest normal clue in the archive)
Pull up when there’s drink around – more than one gives footing for riotous behaviour!
69 letters, 14 words, by C. P. Rea
Shortest clue (the 752nd shortest normal clue in the archive)
It may be made of English gault
25 letters, 7 words, by M. Postlethwaite
Competition 430 has contributed 15 unique words to the clue archive:
R. J. Palmer | appendage |
A. J. Crow | edifice |
R. V. Dearden | Gaulter |
R. Dean | glider |
W. Murphy | healthy-bowelled |
W. Anderson | insect’s |
W. J. M. Scotland | overlapping |
Mrs D. M. Colley | right’s |
C. L. Jones | Roofing |
J. Grainge | rooting |
W. Murphy | scourings |
D. R. Robinson | shortening |
Miss J. Wight | sleigh-t |
P. S. Elliott | vetoed |
P. S. Elliott | Vulgate |