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Competition 1979’s average clue lengths over 24 clues:

42 letters per clue (3 below the archive average, and 1 below the average for 6-letter words)

8.2 words per clue (1.4 below the archive average, and 0.7 below the average for 6-letter words)

Longest clue (the 151st longest normal clue in the archive)

Who offers correspondence course in fine art? Taking this could make father the intellectual!

78 letters, 14 words, by J. C. Leyland

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

Mostly true of a freak

18 letters, 5 words, by T. J. Moorey

Competition 1979 has contributed 16 unique words to the clue archive: