CCCWC April competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 4: Affair destroying relationship? Not if marriage is this!
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| 1. | Wordplay is clever but too difficult | | 2. | Such a good idea! But affair for operation? Hmmmmm | | 3. | "destroying" sounds more like an anagram indicator than a deletion indicator |
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If there are too many almost identical clues it becomes extremely arbitrary to choose, so I'm afraid I removed all shOP ENtrance hiddens and NOPE anagrams before considering the rest. It doesn't necessarily mean they were poor clues, just uninspired. Does this happen more with a very short word to clue?
Lockdown surfaces I also felt were too specific to make a lasting good clue. And as ever there's no excuse for a meaningless surface.
Hidden clues with redundant words 9, 28, 44 are not good practice.
Also I personally feel it's unacceptable to be too indirect, not just with anagrams, which is a big no-no, but with removals (eg 8, 18). Even 4 which is another nice idea, just fails this one. |
