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Competition 1975’s average clue lengths over 25 clues:

45 letters per clue (equal to the archive average, and equal to the average for 13-letter words)

8.9 words per clue (0.7 below the archive average, and 0.6 below the average for 13-letter words)

Longest clue (the 794th longest normal clue in the archive)

As was said of North: peculiarly inept … lost, ultimately, former empire in America

66 letters, 13 words, by R. Gilbert

Shortest clue (the 350th shortest normal clue in the archive)

Pa. is rel. to Tenn. roughly

20 letters, 6 words, by T. Crowther

Competition 1975 has contributed 18 unique words to the clue archive: