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Competition 473’s average clue lengths over 23 clues:

51 letters per clue (6 above the archive average, and 5 above the average for 11-letter words)

10.3 words per clue (0.7 above the archive average, and 0.6 above the average for 11-letter words)

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

Henry, straying from the right line, bowled one alternately in different directions, on the slope

80 letters, 15 words, by D. V. B. Unwin

Shortest clue (the 1,428th shortest normal clue in the archive)

Here one’s after simple hemming loop

30 letters, 6 words, by N. C. Goddard

Competition 473 has contributed 22 unique words to the clue archive: