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Competition 1849’s average clue lengths over 24 clues:

50 letters per clue (5 above the archive average, and 6 above the average for 7-letter words)

9.5 words per clue (0.1 below the archive average, and 0.3 above the average for 7-letter words)

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

Australia’s openers clobbered sixes, ‘going over the top’ in a manner of speaking

65 letters, 13 words, by R. S. Morse

Shortest clue (the 466th shortest normal clue in the archive)

A change from six EU’s shown?

22 letters, 6 words, by Dr I. S. Fletcher

Competition 1849 has contributed 24 unique words to the clue archive: