The Crossword Centre Clue-Writing Competition

CCCWC September competition voters’ comments
 
Clue no. 40: Skeleton key opens easily: no need for pressure

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A clue to BONES.
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Comments on the competition
1.
I didn't think there was a single outstanding clue, but feel that 40 works very smoothly and give it 5 points. 27 earns four points for neat use of 'bunk', narrowly ahead of 37 where I felt that the plural 'disagreements' was rather awkward. 39 is a neat little &lit., earning 2 points, and I gave a point to 21 for a brave rock reference.
2.
33 and 40 would have been my top choices but 33 has an unnecessary exclam and lacks a question mark instead, and in 40 it isn't so much the key that opens as the door. So we need a transitive sense of 'opens', which weakens the surface.