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Competition 2174’s average clue lengths over 25 clues:

45 letters per clue (equal to the archive average, and 3 above the average for Printer’s Devilry competitions)

9.4 words per clue (0.2 below the archive average, and 0.4 above the average for Printer’s Devilry competitions)

Longest clue (the 13th longest Printer’s Devilry clue in the archive)

‘Nock’ and ‘no’ – t/wo similar words with the same meaning but different etymologies

65 letters, 13 words, by D. Appleton

Shortest clue (the 47th shortest Printer’s Devilry clue in the archive)

Leftover bones for our poo/r eats

27 letters, 6 words, by T. C. Borland

Competition 2174 has contributed 38 unique words to the clue archive: