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Competition 1286’s average clue lengths over 23 clues:

45 letters per clue (equal to the archive average, and 2 above the average for 6-letter words)

9.7 words per clue (0.1 above the archive average, and 0.8 above the average for 6-letter words)

Longest clue (the 128th longest normal clue in the archive)

Country house with no running water plugged by the French, or one found in Switzerland on a lease?

79 letters, 18 words, by F. R. Palmer

Shortest clue (the 466th shortest normal clue in the archive)

What might be built at Lech?

22 letters, 6 words, by N. G. Shippobotham

Competition 1286 has contributed 19 unique words to the clue archive: