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Competition 285’s average clue lengths over 28 clues:

37 letters per clue (8 below the archive average, and 7 below the average for Misprints competitions)

8.5 words per clue (1.1 below the archive average, and 0.7 below the average for Misprints competitions)

Longest clue (the 35th longest Misprints clue in the archive)

Bony, fried when battered, commonly regarded as a fish by one? (Must be a cod)

59 letters, 15 words, by E. J. Burge

Shortest clues (the 5th shortest Misprints clues in the archive)

Jugged or fined by beak

19 letters, 5 words, by Mrs M. J. Cansfield

Jugged or fined by beak

19 letters, 5 words, by M. Greenwood

Competition 285 has contributed 14 unique words to the clue archive: