CCCWC September competition voters’ comments

A clue to CONSTITUTION.
7 comments were received for this competition (from 3 competitors, 1 other)

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10. Custom design (12)

1.	Both definitions are stretching it a bit for me.

14. Fabric blend in cotton suit

1.	This is the neatest of the ‘in cotton suit’ anagram clues – I love it.

21. Law of nature

1.	Very concise with a great surface. Fab clue.

23. Make up the rules

1.	I thought this would need a hyphen for the definition but it seems that Chambers also shows it without. Very neat

27. Physique of model in cotton suit (12)

1.	'Of' breaks the cryptic reading. Linkwords are problematical if wp isn't subsidiary, eg using participles/adjectives/adverbs as indicators.
2.	The cryptic grammar is rather strained by use of model (an imperative) after ‘of’ as a link word

33. Take odd excerpts from Crown vs. O. Twist, quote in own legal document

1.	Goodness! How did you find that? Nice!