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Competition 835’s average clue lengths over 27 clues:

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

8.8 words per clue (0.8 below the archive average, and 0.8 below the average for 9-letter words)

Longest clue (the 699th longest normal clue in the archive)

Government office monkey about with afternoon luminance – likely to remain dull

67 letters, 11 words, by D. P. Shenkin

Shortest clue (the 91st shortest normal clue in the archive)

A la scrip o’ novel?

14 letters, 5 words, by R. J. Hooper

Competition 835 has contributed 14 unique words to the clue archive: