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Clue no. 12: Festival time waster (6)

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A clue to EASTER (Misprints).
7 comments refer to this clue (from 6 competitors, 0 others)
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Comments on the clue
1.You have misunderstood the instructions – WASTER needs to be defined, not EASTER.
2.This doesn't really fit the instructions
3.Too short, a good surface reading ideally tells a short story. The wordplay isn't really cryptic enough and the misprint appears en clair
4.WASTER should have been indicated by a definition.
5.This is definition and solution, not wordplay and definition
6.so if this is a double def clue, 'waster' is a definition of 'waster' – how entertaining is that?
 
Comments on the competition
1.
Several clues (10 11 12 13 22 23 54) contain a definition for EASTER. Whether cryptic, &lit or plain, a definition is not wordplay as I understood the instructions. This point was commented on in the Christmas 2012 Special competition. A couple of clues (14 and 15) use "hesitation" to indicate "er", which doesn't seem right to me. "Sign of hesitation", perhaps. Some excellent clues among the others; preference given to those which combine the two key words seamlessly. Found it hard to separate my top five, finally scored them 3.5, 3, 3, 3, 2.5.