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Competition 2023’s average clue lengths over 24 clues:

53 letters per clue (8 above the archive average, and 6 above the average for 10-letter words)

10.5 words per clue (0.9 above the archive average, and 0.8 above the average for 10-letter words)

Longest clue (the 128th longest normal clue in the archive)

Casement’s embellishment a spymaster in Special Branch linked with case of eventual uprising

79 letters, 13 words, by T. J. Moorey

Shortest clue (the 859th shortest normal clue in the archive)

An edging of mural breach, fancy

26 letters, 6 words, by Dr E. Young

Competition 2023 has contributed 14 unique words to the clue archive: