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Competition 882’s average clue lengths over 22 clues:

45 letters per clue (equal to the archive average, and 1 above the average for 7-letter words)

9.5 words per clue (0.1 below the archive average, and 0.3 above the average for 7-letter words)

Longest clues (the 794th longest normal clues in the archive)

Second OED is out – the latest thing in computer gathering of reference material

66 letters, 13 words, by D. F. Manley

Stores reorganized, DTI’s involved, Tiny’s capital lost – that’s what the files show

66 letters, 12 words, by B. Harvey

Shortest clue (the 350th shortest normal clue in the archive)

SIS forms filed by agent?

20 letters, 5 words, by H. W. Massingham

Competition 882 has contributed 14 unique words to the clue archive: