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Competition 289’s average clue lengths over 26 clues:

39 letters per clue (6 below the archive average, and 6 below the average for 8-letter words)

9.0 words per clue (0.6 below the archive average, and 0.4 below the average for 8-letter words)

Longest clue (the 1,028th longest normal clue in the archive)

Experiencing a fugue? Means becoming excited – one will get to the heart of Bach

64 letters, 14 words, by D. F. Manley

Shortest clue (the 350th shortest normal clue in the archive)

Who can efface me as I can?

20 letters, 7 words, by J. A. Fincken

Competition 289 has contributed 11 unique words to the clue archive: