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Competition 23’s average clue lengths over 24 clues:

44 letters per clue (1 below the archive average, and 3 below the average for 12-letter words)

9.0 words per clue (0.6 below the archive average, and 0.8 below the average for 12-letter words)

Longest clue (the 1,431st longest normal clue in the archive)

Little sign of red after almost merciless thrashing with rod – if one’s this

61 letters, 13 words, by Rev C. D. Westbrook

Shortest clue (the 644th shortest normal clue in the archive)

Mr. Croc’dile, ’e’s uncommonly so

24 letters, 5 words, by S. Goldie

Competition 23 has contributed 21 unique words to the clue archive: