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Competition 564’s average clue lengths over 25 clues:

49 letters per clue (4 above the archive average, and 4 above the average for 8-letter words)

9.8 words per clue (0.2 above the archive average, and 0.4 above the average for 8-letter words)

Longest clue (the 293rd longest normal clue in the archive)

Court rejects principles of life imprisonment, good old-fashioned hanging’s the answer

73 letters, 11 words, by C. M. Edmunds

Shortest clue (the 644th shortest normal clue in the archive)

The old drape shape taper, man

24 letters, 6 words, by J. F. N. Wedge

Competition 564 has contributed 18 unique words to the clue archive: