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Competition 862’s average clue lengths over 25 clues:

46 letters per clue (1 above the archive average, and 1 above the average for 8-letter words)

8.5 words per clue (1.1 below the archive average, and 0.9 below the average for 8-letter words)

Longest clue (the 618th longest normal clue in the archive)

Sometimes, with an incompetent, party suffers bouleversement – a real possibility

68 letters, 10 words, by M. A. Macdonald-Cooper

Shortest clue (the 242nd shortest normal clue in the archive)

Periodical: ‘The Field’?

18 letters, 3 words, by Dr E. Young

Competition 862 has contributed 12 unique words to the clue archive: