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Competition 1897’s average clue lengths over 25 clues:

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

8.4 words per clue (1.2 below the archive average, and 0.8 below the average for 7-letter words)

Longest clue (the 1,289th longest normal clue in the archive)

Washington clamour as time runs out to relieve core of Wall Street failure

62 letters, 13 words, by R. S. Morse

Shortest clue (the 242nd shortest normal clue in the archive)

Lulu, with a hit of hers

18 letters, 6 words, by P. Coles

Competition 1897 has contributed 14 unique words to the clue archive: