WordStats for Comp. 618 View the Azed Slip | ◀ 615 | 622 ▶ | Other competitions
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No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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618 | Mar 1984 | CRETISM | normal | 26 |
Competition 618’s average clue lengths over 26 clues:
42 letters per clue (3 below the archive average, and 2 below the average for 7-letter words)
8.1 words per clue (1.5 below the archive average, and 1.1 below the average for 7-letter words)
Longest clue (the 1,160th longest normal clue in the archive)
There’s nothing infallible about this version of papist and Roman doctrine
63 letters, 11 words, by Rev W. P. Manahan
Shortest clues (the 350th shortest normal clues in the archive)
Credit me? It’s misguided!
20 letters, 4 words, by D. J. MacKay
Mister C’s inexactitude?
20 letters, 3 words, by G. Perry
Competition 618 has contributed 16 unique words to the clue archive:
B. Franco | clue-adjudicator |
F. R. Palmer | devastatingly |
J. F. Grimshaw | ferreted |
D. Hibbert | Idiocy |
C. Allen Baker | lobbed |
C. Allen Baker | McEnroe |
S. M. Mansell | mendacity |
H. W. Massingham | metrics |
L. May | Miscreant’s |
E. Chalkley | Monarch’s |
Rev W. P. Manahan | papist |
R. J. Hooper | RMs |
J. G. Stubbs | smiter |
Dr E. Young | symmetric |
J. C. Leyland | UHT |
Dr E. Young | unbalanced |