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Competition 1908’s average clue lengths over 22 clues:

52 letters per clue (7 above the archive average, and 5 above the average for 12-letter words)

10.5 words per clue (0.9 above the archive average, and 0.7 above the average for 12-letter words)

Longest clue (the 334th longest normal clue in the archive)

Of themselves, the Magi may have spoken thus, ‘We’re knights errant traversing the Orient’

72 letters, 14 words, by D. J. R. Ogilvie

Shortest clue (the 1,428th shortest normal clue in the archive)

Merry minister keeps humming carol

30 letters, 5 words, by C. J. Brougham

Competition 1908 has contributed 23 unique words to the clue archive: