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Competition 1901’s average clue lengths over 22 clues:

48 letters per clue (3 above the archive average, and 3 above the average for 8-letter words)

10.1 words per clue (0.5 above the archive average, and 0.7 above the average for 8-letter words)

Longest clue (the 109th longest normal clue in the archive)

Purge of offensive elements – from Auntie vacuous smut is (when broadcast) ‘non-U’, regardless of time

80 letters, 15 words, by C. D. S. & E. A. Field

Shortest clue (the 56th shortest normal clue in the archive)

Edit i.e. as in s**t

12 letters, 7 words, by Dr E. Young

Competition 1901 has contributed 21 unique words to the clue archive: