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Competition 1958’s average clue lengths over 21 clues:

49 letters per clue (4 above the archive average, and 5 above the average for 7-letter words)

9.8 words per clue (0.2 above the archive average, and 0.6 above the average for 7-letter words)

Longest clue (the 86th longest normal clue in the archive)

Gough and Hoggard not playing, missing fantastic tour, could become two such miserable specimens

81 letters, 14 words, by D. K. Arnott

Shortest clue (the 859th shortest normal clue in the archive)

Going with head bowed, i.e. abject

26 letters, 7 words, by M. Barley

Competition 1958 has contributed 15 unique words to the clue archive: