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Competition 1831’s average clue lengths over 23 clues:

54 letters per clue (9 above the archive average, and 7 above the average for 10-letter words)

11.4 words per clue (1.8 above the archive average, and 1.7 above the average for 10-letter words)

Longest clue (the 151st longest normal clue in the archive)

Sideline commentary from Milan/Cagliari playing after sending off odd characters in ‘calcio’

78 letters, 13 words, by D. R. Robinson

Shortest clue (the 2,812th shortest normal clue in the archive)

Great man’s familiar puzzles: Fermat’s these?

36 letters, 6 words, by V. Seth

Competition 1831 has contributed 25 unique words to the clue archive: