CCCWC July competition voters’ comments on Clue no. 1

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Clue no. 1: Badly-run techno club

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A clue to TRUNCHEON.
7 comments refer to this clue (from 5 competitors, 0 others)
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Comments on the clue

1.	Would have been better without the hyphen
2.	Beautifully concise. Would have preferred it without the hyphen, which seems to me to mislead by tying the anagram indicator to "run".
3.	Nice clue, but spoilt by the hyphen, which I think could have been omitted without too much of a problem.
4.	Shame about the hyphen, else I'd have rated this one of the winners
5.	a nice anagram, excellent surface & economical too.

Comments on the competition
1.
I felt that clue no's 1, 16, 26, 37 and 38 stood out from the rest, but I was unable to pick an outright winner.
2.
There were so many good clues to choose from this month, I ended up with a short list of 15, only one of which (1) I felt I could downgrade to a merit. Of the others, that still left many with the same sort of &lit treatment (17, 18, 21, 29, 43, 44) which I could not easily choose between, so I gave them all one point. In the end, I decided that 7 and 31 stood out for their original treatments and amusing surface readings and voted them first and second, but not quite enough above the pack for the full 5 and 4 points, leaving a handful of points to share between others. So some that I would have been very happy with as my first choice, given less competition, ended up with just half a point!