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Competition 1694’s average clue lengths over 22 clues:

47 letters per clue (2 above the archive average, and equal to 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 39th longest normal clue in the archive)

Distort (as tabloids might) feature on American bishop ‘accepting wrong-doing’, with endless make-believe

86 letters, 13 words, by F. R. Palmer

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

Retrim spinet twisting wrest

25 letters, 4 words, by C. J. Brougham

Competition 1694 has contributed 19 unique words to the clue archive: