ordStats homepage| Name | No of clues | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs | Also listed as |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R. J. Whale | 164 | 12 | 20 | 132 | 201 | R. Whale |
R. J. Whale’s average clue lengths over 164 clues:
47 letters per clue (2 above the archive average of 45)
10.0 words per clue (0.4 above the archive average of 9.6)
Longest clue
Help run a rehab centre, soup kitchen or medical charity – I want to be seen to encourage interest in organ donation
93 letters, 21 words, in competition 1810 HARE / POSEUR / SERINETTE (DLM)
Shortest clues
Dodgy RE? He’s got a lot
17 letters, 6 words, in competition 1559 THEOLOGASTER
High priest? Pah, say I
17 letters, 5 words, in competition 2265 ESPRIT FORT
R. J. Whale has contributed 142 unique words to the clue archive:
| 2373 | accruing |
| 2495 | advances |
| 2573 | Alpino’s |
| 2469 | annually |
| 1733 | APR |
| 1541 | arch-spy |
| 2573 | ascent |
| 1676 | Atkinson |
| 2495 | ATM |
| 1806 | Bacchus |
| 1367 | bans |
| 2543 | bindings |
| 1091 | Bing |
| 1147 | blossom |
| 2218 | blustering |
| 2200 | booze-up |
| 2324 | bristlecone |
| 1485 | BSE’s |
| 2539 | campaigners |
| 1489 | cf |
| 1680 | chamberpot |
| 2291 | citizens |
| 2139 | CK |
| 2539 | CND |
| 1949 | concocting |
| 2139 | decrees |
| 2360 | depiction |
| 2006 | donors |
| 1367 | dress-code |
| 1762 | Dury |
| 943 | d’oil |
| 1810 | encourage |
| 2386 | Ern |
| 1897 | erode |
| 1596 | Euro-traveller |
| 2403 | exemplify |
| 1936 | experiments |
| 2543 | fall-out |
| 2144 | feathery |
| 1255 | ferried |
| 2283 | flip-flops |
| 2539 | forgo |
| 2148 | free-flowing |
| 1676 | g-gem |
| 1960 | gaga-land |
| 1711 | gallon |
| 2078 | Galloway |
| 2183 | Gawain |
| 2235 | Generously-filled |
| 2109 | Greaves |
| 1433 | Guppy’s |
| 2456 | gut-rot |
| 1351 | handsome |
| 2053 | Haydon |
| 2122 | HC |
| 1572 | Hel |
| 908 | hing |
| 2386 | humorously |
| 473 | hurrying |
| 1415 | italic |
| 1960 | Jersey |
| 1207 | KO’ing |
| 2403 | Laertes |
| 943 | Langue |
| 1200 | Lara’d |
| 2261 | Lasagne |
| 2330 | listless |
| 2469 | Ludd |
| 1480 | Luke’s |
| 2283 | magasin |
| 2469 | mangle |
| 2078 | maverick |
| 1676 | mic |
| 558 | mid-summer |
| 2360 | Mondays |
| 2360 | must-see |
| 2447 | Negronis |
| 1918 | Nepalese |
| 2512 | newly-wed |
| 2218 | Nige’s |
| 2279 | nines |
| 2062 | non-PC |
| 2287 | Not-quite |
| 2330 | NZ |
| 1459 | Oast |
| 2272 | Oman’s |
| 473 | Oo |
| 1203 | overheated |
| 2265 | Pah |
| 1949 | Perrins |
| 1814 | pert-ish |
| 558 | Pier’s |
| 2438 | pignorated |
| 238 | poets |
| 1207 | presaging |
| 2031 | queenly |
| 2040 | Ramsay |
| 649 | rasorial |
| 2351 | reddish |
| 1784 | reformatory |
| 1879 | remainder’s |
| 2525 | repackage |
| 1663 | resetting |
| 2261 | rigatoni |
| 2482 | Roxy |
| 2412 | Saudis |
| 2062 | sawney |
| 1936 | schools |
| 2364 | shampoo |
| 2412 | Shapeless |
| 1385 | sites |
| 908 | smattering |
| 2504 | Smiley |
| 1312 | snooker |
| 1733 | somewhere |
| 2490 | Spacey |
| 2152 | Specsavers |
| 1334 | Sphenisciformes |
| 2279 | splinters |
| 2070 | sported |
| 2490 | springs |
| 1698 | SR |
| 1485 | stock’s |
| 1711 | take-away |
| 2360 | Tanner |
| 1700 | tea-time |
| 1611 | teller |
| 2006 | tend |
| 1694 | thickness |
| 1322 | threes |
| 2586 | tinctures |
| 2456 | transitive |
| 1268 | trig |
| 1260 | Turandot |
| 1663 | ulna |
| 1762 | unavailable |
| 2040 | unavoidable |
| 2287 | upwardly-mobile |
| 2469 | vandalizing |
| 2126 | weed’s |
| 1268 | Wranglers |
| 2062 | yankee |