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Competition 1997’s average clue lengths over 27 clues:

42 letters per clue (3 below the archive average, and 1 above the average for 4-letter words)

8.8 words per clue (0.8 below the archive average, and 0.4 above the average for 4-letter words)

Longest clue (the 109th longest normal clue in the archive)

Traditional local music in Algarve city, with outbreak of dancing taking over centre of tourism

80 letters, 15 words, by E. C. Lance

Shortest clue (the 466th shortest normal clue in the archive)

A bit of folk song and dance

22 letters, 7 words, by M. Hodgkin

Competition 1997 has contributed 14 unique words to the clue archive: