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Competition 174’s average clue lengths over 24 clues:

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

10.1 words per clue (0.5 above the archive average, and 0.5 above the average for 9-letter words)

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

My devotees could make initially unlettered people confused with an effort – so could I

72 letters, 14 words, by R. F. Pardoe

Shortest clue (the 644th shortest normal clue in the archive)

What a poet early on displays

24 letters, 6 words, by J. Fryde

Competition 174 has contributed 19 unique words to the clue archive: