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Competition 340’s average clue lengths over 24 clues:

52 letters per clue (7 above the archive average, and 8 above the average for 7-letter words)

10.6 words per clue (1 above the archive average, and 1.4 above the average for 7-letter words)

Longest clue (the 109th longest normal clue in the archive)

Not quite the ultimate in prose, held by one who deals with better as ‘having literary pretensions’

80 letters, 17 words, by R. J. Palmer

Shortest clue (the 1,802nd shortest normal clue in the archive)

Brooke is bandied about – what could be ——r?

32 letters, 8 words, by D. F. Manley

Competition 340 has contributed 19 unique words to the clue archive: