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Competition 190’s average clue lengths over 26 clues:

51 letters per clue (6 above the archive average, and 5 above the average for 9-letter words)

9.9 words per clue (0.3 above the archive average, and 0.3 above the average for 9-letter words)

Longest clue (the 8th longest normal clue in the archive)

First signs of co-operation as Smith, seeing African Nationalists, discusses Rhodesian aims? I see only a black future

97 letters, 18 words, by J. D. Moore

Shortest clues (the 1,119th shortest normal clues in the archive)

Suspect as canards my revelation

28 letters, 5 words, by G. A. Tomlinson

A ‘sans-card’, disestablished, Enoch?

28 letters, 4 words, by Lieut Col D. Macfie

Competition 190 has contributed 29 unique words to the clue archive: