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Competition 607’s average clue lengths over 20 clues:

44 letters per clue (1 below the archive average, and 1 above the average for 6-letter words)

9.0 words per clue (0.6 below the archive average, and 0.1 above the average for 6-letter words)

Longest clue (the 1,289th longest normal clue in the archive)

‘Crowther’s No. 1 composer, successor to X’? (This & lit. could be devious certainly!)

62 letters, 13 words, by D. F. Manley

Shortest clues (the 2,265th shortest normal clues in the archive)

Hint of Christmas and New Year, rum butter

34 letters, 8 words, by D. Stanford

Sly – tinker with yearn after drop of cheer

34 letters, 8 words, by M. D. James

Competition 607 has contributed 11 unique words to the clue archive: