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Competition 1784’s average clue lengths over 24 clues:

42 letters per clue (3 below the archive average, and 3 below the average for 8-letter words)

9.3 words per clue (0.3 below the archive average, and 0.1 below the average for 8-letter words)

Longest clue (the 77th longest normal clue in the archive)

Daly’s second is in casual water, agreed? Drop further from the hole. Bogeys may curb his recklessness

82 letters, 17 words, by D. Appleton

Shortest clue (the 295th shortest normal clue in the archive)

Drop to get out of rough?

19 letters, 6 words, by Dr I. S. Fletcher

Competition 1784 has contributed 20 unique words to the clue archive: