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Competition 294’s average clue lengths over 26 clues:

41 letters per clue (4 below the archive average, and 2 below the average for 6-letter words)

8.5 words per clue (1.1 below the archive average, and 0.4 below the average for 6-letter words)

Longest clue (the 1,028th longest normal clue in the archive)

Hull’s prop shows up in not inconsiderable list – boat’s stern only slightly wet

64 letters, 13 words, by E. J. Burge

Shortest clue (the 91st shortest normal clue in the archive)

Dab, cod, smelt etc.

14 letters, 4 words, by H. W. Massingham

Competition 294 has contributed 24 unique words to the clue archive: