WordStats for Comp. 388 View the Azed Slip | ◀ 384 | 393 ▶ | Other competitions
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| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 388 | Sep 1979 | ALEXIPHARMIC | normal | 28 |
Competition 388’s average clue lengths over 28 clues:
49 letters per clue (4 above the archive average, and 2 above the average for 12-letter words)
10.6 words per clue (1 above the archive average, and 0.8 above the average for 12-letter words)
Longest clue (the 39th longest normal clue in the archive)
India pale, perhaps, at first – then team cheer up in after-lunch period, getting 99 against venomous attack
86 letters, 17 words, by F. P. N. Lake
Shortest clue (the 752nd shortest normal clue in the archive)
For a toxic arm I help – turn to me
25 letters, 9 words, by P. J. Woods
Competition 388 has contributed 21 unique words to the clue archive:
| F. P. N. Lake | after-lunch |
| Miss N. M. Brown | arsenic |
| B. F. Russell | ax |
| G. Johnstone | Beverage |
| M. Postlethwaite | caliph |
| Mrs M. P. Craine | Chemist’s |
| B. F. Russell | complicates |
| C. J. Morse | counter-measures |
| C. Loving | Crippen |
| M. J. Ball | incompletely |
| J. P. H. Hirst | injure |
| R. A. England | kernel |
| C. Allen Baker | lexical |
| N. C. Dexter | mamba’s |
| M. J. Balfour | Mithridates |
| R. J. Palmer | monkswood |
| M. J. Balfour | placid |
| M. J. Ball | preventing |
| D. R. Robinson | reviving |
| M. J. Balfour | trivets |
| F. P. N. Lake | venomous |

