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Competition 2486’s average clue lengths over 22 clues:

50 letters per clue (5 above the archive average, and 6 above the average for 7-letter words)

9.5 words per clue (0.1 below the archive average, and 0.3 above the average for 7-letter words)

Longest clue (the 77th longest normal clue in the archive)

Baron Hardup merrily gives away daughter, Prince becoming husband by end of Cinderella pantomime

82 letters, 14 words, by R. J. Heald

Shortest clues (the 1,274th shortest normal clues in the archive)

Stink coming from almost dry ditch

29 letters, 6 words, by Mrs A. M. Walden

Hereby upheaval regularly erupts

29 letters, 4 words, by Dr J. Burscough

Competition 2486 has contributed 24 unique words to the clue archive: