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Competition 779’s average clue lengths over 24 clues:

53 letters per clue (8 above the archive average, and 7 above the average for 11-letter words)

10.9 words per clue (1.3 above the archive average, and 1.2 above the average for 11-letter words)

Longest clue (the 49th longest normal clue in the archive)

Don’t get at Mikhail G, source of overtures for reduction – he’s presumably an advance on his predecessors

85 letters, 17 words, by R. J. Hooper

Shortest clue (the 2,028th shortest normal clue in the archive)

Semi simian slinking up a gum tree, maybe?

33 letters, 8 words, by N. C. Dexter

Competition 779 has contributed 15 unique words to the clue archive: