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Competition 1406’s average clue lengths over 25 clues:

44 letters per clue (1 below the archive average, and 2 below the average for 9-letter words)

8.7 words per clue (0.9 below the archive average, and 0.9 below the average for 9-letter words)

Longest clue (the 905th longest normal clue in the archive)

It may have given a French infantryman less hesitation and increased stomach

65 letters, 12 words, by V. Dixon

Shortest clue (the 407th shortest normal clue in the archive)

OTC phases out old weapon

21 letters, 5 words, by A. Roth

Competition 1406 has contributed 14 unique words to the clue archive: