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Competition 454’s average clue lengths over 27 clues:

48 letters per clue (3 above the archive average, and 1 above the average for 12-letter words)

10.3 words per clue (0.7 above the archive average, and 0.5 above the average for 12-letter words)

Longest clue (the 217th longest normal clue in the archive)

Child stirs uneasily when mother creeps in to head of bed with neat collection of presents

75 letters, 16 words, by J. F. Grimshaw

Shortest clue (the 466th shortest normal clue in the archive)

Its charm’s set off on a tree

22 letters, 7 words, by E. M. Holroyd

Competition 454 has contributed 12 unique words to the clue archive: