WordStats for Comp. 486 View the Azed Slip | ◀ 482 | 491 ▶ | Other competitions
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No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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486 | Aug 1981 | JUMPED-UP | normal | 26 |
Competition 486’s average clue lengths over 26 clues:
46 letters per clue (1 above the archive average, and 1 above the average for 8-letter words)
8.7 words per clue (0.9 below the archive average, and 0.7 below the average for 8-letter words)
Longest clue (the 3rd longest normal clue in the archive)
Describing Malvolio, for instance, Shakespeare’s exactly penning basket with a letter suggesting association with the upper class!
110 letters, 17 words, by C. P. Rea
Shortest clue (the 56th shortest normal clue in the archive)
Climbing rose
12 letters, 2 words, by N. Roles
Competition 486 has contributed 26 unique words to the clue archive:
C. P. Rea | basket |
A. J. Wardrop | Beaverbrook |
D. R. Robinson | Behaved |
J. F. Grimshaw | desrcibes |
A. H. Jones | Flashman |
C. J. Morse | halfway |
J. Horwood | Jack-in-office’s |
J. F. Grimshaw | Jacquerie |
D. F. Manley | Jameses |
D. R. Robinson | Jourdain |
P. F. Henderson | Jude |
A. G. Corrigan | Macbeth’s |
C. P. Rea | Malvolio |
D. A. W. Diaper | Newly-sprung |
B. Franco | Newlyrich |
C. J. Morse | over-promoted |
R. S. Caffyn | Parvenu |
A. G. Corrigan | parvenue |
P. F. Henderson | riven |
Mrs A. R. Bradford | Sauteed |
F. B. Stubbs | smartly |
J. F. Grimshaw | usurping |
C. J. Morse | Walker |
N. C. Goddard | walker’s |
R. Dean | well-bred |
R. H. Adey | whizz-kids |