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Competition 495’s average clue lengths over 27 clues:

45 letters per clue (equal to the archive average, and 1 below the average for 9-letter words)

9.6 words per clue (equal to the archive average, and equal to the average for 9-letter words)

Longest clue (the 397th longest normal clue in the archive)

What’s formed by a derivative of coca, sniffed initially, now no longer easily injected?

71 letters, 14 words, by C. A. Clarke

Shortest clue (the 407th shortest normal clue in the archive)

Bad company teaches – this?

21 letters, 4 words, by E. M. Holroyd

Competition 495 has contributed 18 unique words to the clue archive: