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Competition 1788’s average clue lengths over 22 clues:

53 letters per clue (8 above the archive average, and 6 above the average for 12-letter words)

9.9 words per clue (0.3 above the archive average, and 0.1 above the average for 12-letter words)

Longest clue (the 151st longest normal clue in the archive)

Primrose (50%) and apple (40%) are initially combined with these in soap – Imperial Leather possibly

78 letters, 15 words, by P. Heffernan

Shortest clue (the 1,622nd shortest normal clue in the archive)

Essentially this lot release stinks?

31 letters, 5 words, by J. R. Tozer

Competition 1788 has contributed 24 unique words to the clue archive: