CCCWC November competition voters’ comments on Clue no. 2

A clue to PROLIX.
4 comments refer to this clue (from 4 competitors, 0 others)

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Comments on the clue

1.	The definition defines an adverb. Need to indicate subtracted letters are shown out of order.
2.	Rather a strange surface reading.
3.	"how their salesmen might talk" suggests an adverb to me.
4.	nice idea but needs a question mark I think