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Competition 869’s average clue lengths over 25 clues:

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

8.6 words per clue (1 below the archive average, and 0.6 below the average for 7-letter words)

Longest clue (the 1,764th longest normal clue in the archive)

Preliminaries to hijacking stagecoaches – past success found therein?

59 letters, 8 words, by M. D. Jones

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

See waits last Sunday?

18 letters, 4 words, by A. D. Scott

Competition 869 has contributed 25 unique words to the clue archive: