| Name | No of clues | First Prizes | Other Prizes | VHCs | HCs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E. J. Burge | 161 | 5 | 18 | 138 | 213 |
E. J. Burge’s average clue lengths over 161 clues:
51 letters per clue (6 above the archive average of 45)
10.7 words per clue (1.1 above the archive average of 9.6)
Longest clue
Curling rink plan hits English – produces audible accompaniment of ‘What’s cooking?’, ‘a growing curse,’ ‘cease!’, ‘off!’ … (English ‘side’ must be upset!)
111 letters, 21 words, in competition 744 SKIRL-IN-THE-PAN / COFFEE-DISEASE (Right and Left)
Shortest clue
‘Alert! Wa/r events’ – Extra
19 letters, 4 words, in competition 622 SIMP (Printer’s Devilry)
E. J. Burge has contributed 90 unique words to the clue archive:
| 1766 | Aldwych |
| 1766 | avers |
| 831 | bead |
| 853 | becalmed |
| 766 | bib’s |
| 1084 | billing |
| 1084 | bleeps |
| 276 | boarding |
| 294 | boat’s |
| 285 | Bony |
| 823 | breath |
| 1091 | Brum |
| 991 | butting |
| 452 | chapel’s |
| 900 | cheated |
| 764 | Christmas-time |
| 1300 | collecting-box |
| 631 | Coniophora |
| 1628 | conmmendation |
| 513 | Conteh |
| 443 | cornet |
| 1500 | crew’s |
| 1117 | crock’s |
| 1439 | Cronje |
| 1194 | culprit’s |
| 744 | Curling |
| 66 | decimal |
| 491 | deformed |
| 1178 | Dogbolter |
| 1300 | down-and-outs |
| 1641 | egg-timer |
| 513 | explains |
| 1766 | Farces |
| 538 | Garner |
| 491 | groove |
| 900 | halts |
| 423 | helmets |
| 1255 | Highlands |
| 294 | Hull’s |
| 294 | inconsiderable |
| 987 | interval |
| 1806 | intoxication |
| 547 | investigator |
| 406 | Lancing |
| 267 | Mayday |
| 349 | Medoc |
| 1139 | menswear |
| 1437 | Moet |
| 1294 | Nantes |
| 1117 | Nope |
| 868 | orbit’s |
| 1268 | overciouded |
| 792 | Overhauling |
| 649 | parlour’s |
| 443 | participant’s |
| 1294 | Partition |
| 1122 | pledge |
| 543 | Pony |
| 1180 | post-Christmas |
| 447 | prints |
| 294 | prop |
| 379 | re-created |
| 452 | relations |
| 1180 | rescheduling |
| 1174 | reveller |
| 744 | rink |
| 1004 | Sainsbury’s |
| 187 | salty |
| 840 | seaweed |
| 439 | secretaries |
| 1866 | serviced |
| 757 | skiff |
| 965 | Snowy |
| 1078 | stretched |
| 809 | swingers |
| 649 | Sydney’s |
| 1489 | T-bone |
| 1100 | tapped |
| 1849 | taxpayer |
| 1126 | tech |
| 559 | top’s |
| 666 | Toulon |
| 1659 | traced |
| 443 | Truncated |
| 439 | typing |
| 1342 | unlawfully |
| 491 | veins |
| 1659 | Vortex |
| 1078 | watertight |
| 45 | Woody |


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