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Competition 2040’s average clue lengths over 25 clues:

46 letters per clue (1 above the archive average, and 4 above the average for Printer’s Devilry competitions)

9.4 words per clue (0.2 below the archive average, and 0.4 above the average for Printer’s Devilry competitions)

Longest clue (the longest Printer’s Devilry clue in the archive)

Global warming and oceanic pollution are what? Many scientists’ se/minal planetary afflictions

80 letters, 12 words, by I. Carr

Shortest clue (the 143rd shortest Printer’s Devilry clue in the archive)

Clippers soon had us leaving home shor/n

33 letters, 7 words, by Dr E. Young

Competition 2040 has contributed 30 unique words to the clue archive: