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Competition 216’s average clue lengths over 23 clues:

45 letters per clue (equal to the archive average, and equal to the average for 8-letter words)

10.2 words per clue (0.6 above the archive average, and 0.8 above the average for 8-letter words)

Longest clue (the 397th longest normal clue in the archive)

The pattern of industry in, say, Coventry after ending of strikes is material shortage

71 letters, 14 words, by A. J. Bulman

Shortest clue (the 1,119th shortest normal clue in the archive)

Within second lean year it must be

28 letters, 7 words, by S. L. Paton

Competition 216 has contributed 18 unique words to the clue archive: