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Competition 2287’s average clue lengths over 20 clues:

43 letters per clue (2 below the archive average, and 1 above the average for 5-letter words)

8.6 words per clue (1 below the archive average, and 0.1 below the average for 5-letter words)

Longest clue (the 905th longest normal clue in the archive)

Extremes of licence taken to cut tax – personally, I’d get billionaires collared

65 letters, 12 words, by T. J. Moorey

Shortest clue (the 242nd shortest normal clue in the archive)

Bye, first to third man

18 letters, 5 words, by M. A. Macdonald-Cooper

Competition 2287 has contributed 17 unique words to the clue archive: