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Competition 1906’s average clue lengths over 23 clues:

47 letters per clue (2 above the archive average, and 5 above the average for 5-letter words)

9.3 words per clue (0.3 below the archive average, and 0.6 above the average for 5-letter words)

Longest clue (the 249th longest normal clue in the archive)

One famed for cracking clues showing incipient misery over ridiculous style ‘Endeavour’

74 letters, 12 words, by M. A. Macdonald-Cooper

Shortest clue (the 407th shortest normal clue in the archive)

Do crimes puzzle this DCI?

21 letters, 5 words, by Dr J. Burscough

Competition 1906 has contributed 21 unique words to the clue archive: