WordStats for Comp. 508 View the Azed Slip | ◀ 506 | 513 ▶ | Other competitions
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No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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508 | Jan 1982 | POSTURE-MAKER | normal | 29 |
Competition 508’s average clue lengths over 29 clues:
36 letters per clue (9 below the archive average, and 11 below the average for 12-letter words)
8.2 words per clue (1.4 below the archive average, and 1.6 below the average for 12-letter words)
Longest clue (the 188th longest normal clue in the archive)
Start of overpricing in rotten supermarket – I’ll be bending over backwards to make ends meet
76 letters, 15 words, by V. G. Henderson
Shortest clues (the 5th shortest normal clues in the archive)
Proteus?
7 letters, 1 word, by D. M. Stanford
Proteus?
7 letters, 1 word, by Rev W. P. Manahan
Proteus?
7 letters, 1 word, by D. F. Manley
Competition 508 has contributed 16 unique words to the clue archive:
N. C. Dexter | acrobatic |
E. A. Beaulah | adopt |
P. Drummond | assumer |
H. Tillier | contortionist |
T. J. Moorey | Emu |
V. G. Henderson | overpricing |
B. Franco | park’s |
J. D. Moore | party-centre |
B. A. Pike | pose-taker |
T. J. Moorey | Rod’s |
J. D. Moore | scraping |
B. Franco | screwball |
P. Drummond | shapes |
M. Woolf | streaker |
C. P. Rea | stumer |
M. D. Laws | troupers |