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Competition 1637’s average clue lengths over 26 clues:

47 letters per clue (2 above the archive average, and 3 above the average for 7-letter words)

9.5 words per clue (0.1 below the archive average, and 0.3 above the average for 7-letter words)

Longest clue (the 334th longest normal clue in the archive)

Machines without access to high-density floppy may be unable to retrieve information

72 letters, 12 words, by M. Bath

Shortest clues (the 1,428th shortest normal clues in the archive)

New man, bumbling sice, is no retainer

30 letters, 7 words, by R. Phillips

Who’s likely to forget cinema’s ‘Rocky’?

30 letters, 6 words, by G. Perry

Competition 1637 has contributed 18 unique words to the clue archive: