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Competition 169’s average clue lengths over 22 clues:

51 letters per clue (6 above the archive average, and 7 above the average for 7-letter words)

10.1 words per clue (0.5 above the archive average, and 0.9 above the average for 7-letter words)

Longest clue (the 334th longest normal clue in the archive)

The originators of this had unspeakably gruesome garottings esoterically executed

72 letters, 10 words, by A. L. Dennis

Shortest clues (the 2,536th shortest normal clues in the archive)

All in rugger in the form of holy terrorism

35 letters, 9 words, by D. P. M. Michael

It’s renewed by the mugger (bar the extremes)

35 letters, 8 words, by F. R. Palmer

Competition 169 has contributed 21 unique words to the clue archive: