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Competition 508’s average clue lengths over 29 clues:

36 letters per clue (9 below the archive average, and 11 below the average for 12-letter words)

8.2 words per clue (1.4 below the archive average, and 1.6 below the average for 12-letter words)

Longest clue (the 188th longest normal clue in the archive)

Start of overpricing in rotten supermarket – I’ll be bending over backwards to make ends meet

76 letters, 15 words, by V. G. Henderson

Shortest clues (the 5th shortest normal clues in the archive)

Proteus?

7 letters, 1 word, by Rev W. P. Manahan

Proteus?

7 letters, 1 word, by D. F. Manley

Proteus?

7 letters, 1 word, by D. M. Stanford

Competition 508 has contributed 16 unique words to the clue archive: