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Competition 1801’s average clue lengths over 20 clues:

59 letters per clue (14 above the archive average, and 12 above the average for 12-letter words)

11.1 words per clue (1.5 above the archive average, and 1.3 above the average for 12-letter words)

Longest clue (the 86th longest normal clue in the archive)

Distressed drug user starts to experience extreme reaction, encountering phoney ‘horse’ perhaps

81 letters, 12 words, by E. Cross

Shortest clue (the 2,265th shortest normal clue in the archive)

One does see EU err with drug war strategy

34 letters, 9 words, by P. D. Gaffey

Competition 1801 has contributed 14 unique words to the clue archive: