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Competition 1866’s average clue lengths over 23 clues:

41 letters per clue (4 below the archive average, and 1 below the average for 5-letter words)

8.7 words per clue (0.9 below the archive average, and equal to the average for 5-letter words)

Longest clue (the 1,591st longest normal clue in the archive)

Government nationalise finally, propping up northern bank nearly bust

60 letters, 9 words, by T. J. Moorey

Shortest clue (the 752nd shortest normal clue in the archive)

A drunk lobbing empty bottles

25 letters, 5 words, by J. R. Tozer

Competition 1866 has contributed 15 unique words to the clue archive: