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Competition 1753’s average clue lengths over 28 clues:

43 letters per clue (2 below the archive average, and 2 below the average for 8-letter words)

9.1 words per clue (0.5 below the archive average, and 0.3 below the average for 8-letter words)

Longest clue (the 905th longest normal clue in the archive)

See New Orleans given little Government help, reflecting North/South’s divide?

65 letters, 11 words, by T. J. Moorey

Shortest clues (the 545th shortest normal clues in the archive)

Obliquely I go and a line I am

23 letters, 8 words, by M. Coates

Bias: a loading that’s skewed

23 letters, 5 words, by C. A. Clarke

Competition 1753 has contributed 19 unique words to the clue archive: