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Competition 823’s average clue lengths over 28 clues:

41 letters per clue (4 below the archive average, and 5 below the average for 9-letter words)

9.1 words per clue (0.5 below the archive average, and 0.5 below the average for 9-letter words)

Longest clue (the 1,431st longest normal clue in the archive)

Rioting Arabs to get measure of Israelis? Hard lacking a missile launcher

61 letters, 12 words, by C. A. Clarke

Shortest clue (the 74th shortest normal clue in the archive)

It can bear shot

13 letters, 4 words, by P. Cargill

Competition 823 has contributed 12 unique words to the clue archive: