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Competition 1234’s average clue lengths over 24 clues:

50 letters per clue (5 above the archive average, and 4 above the average for 11-letter words)

10.1 words per clue (0.5 above the archive average, and 0.4 above the average for 11-letter words)

Longest clue (the 29th longest normal clue in the archive)

This may possibly introduce Shakespeare’s ‘Passionate Pilgrim’ or ‘Venus and Adonis’ to new overseas readers

89 letters, 15 words, by H. J. Bradbury

Shortest clue (the 990th shortest normal clue in the archive)

Post-volume para? No – au contraire

27 letters, 5 words, by H. Freeman

Competition 1234 has contributed 18 unique words to the clue archive: