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Competition 1589’s average clue lengths over 26 clues:

48 letters per clue (3 above the archive average, and 2 above the average for 9-letter words)

10.7 words per clue (1.1 above the archive average, and 1.1 above the average for 9-letter words)

Longest clue (the 1,028th longest normal clue in the archive)

For one like Dame Edna it’s a bit hard with mike’s breaking down half way through

64 letters, 16 words, by E. A. Beaulah

Shortest clue (the 990th shortest normal clue in the archive)

Another way to put him? ‘King o’ Jest’

27 letters, 8 words, by N. C. Dexter

Competition 1589 has contributed 23 unique words to the clue archive: