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Competition 853’s average clue lengths over 23 clues:

48 letters per clue (3 above the archive average, and 4 above the average for 7-letter words)

10.3 words per clue (0.7 above the archive average, and 1.1 above the average for 7-letter words)

Longest clue (the 334th longest normal clue in the archive)

Cracking the last two letters in Scrabble! As a start, the first five are easily deployed

72 letters, 16 words, by L. J. Davenport

Shortest clue (the 752nd shortest normal clue in the archive)

Rush entry up by taxi in strike

25 letters, 7 words, by C. J. Brougham

Competition 853 has contributed 15 unique words to the clue archive: