CCCWC May competition voters’ comments on Clue no. 18

A clue to ELDERS.
5 comments refer to this clue (from 4 competitors, 1 other)

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Comments on the clue

1.	You are missing e.g. another "in" after "retreat" for wordplay
2.	The wordplay is faulty: ‘found in retreat, x’ doesn’t mean ‘found in x in retreat’ or ‘found in retreat in x’
3.	'In' doing double duty here.
4.	The contents indicator ("Found in") overlaps the reversal indicator ("in retreat")
5.	Good hidden word clue but others were more appealing.