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Competition 1689’s average clue lengths over 21 clues:

49 letters per clue (4 above the archive average, and 7 above the average for 5-letter words)

10.1 words per clue (0.5 above the archive average, and 1.4 above the average for 5-letter words)

Longest clue (the 540th longest normal clue in the archive)

Setting date for ending in government, our PM’s overturned ministerial convention

69 letters, 11 words, by T. J. Moorey

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

See heresy given assent? Not here!

27 letters, 6 words, by Dr J. Burscough

Competition 1689 has contributed 18 unique words to the clue archive: