The Crossword Centre Clue-Writing Competition

CCCWC February competition voters’ comments
 
Clue no. 36: Tarty, vile broadcast?

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Comments on the competition
1.
Lots of "vile tarty" anagrams (and derivatives) 9, 25, 35, 36, 55 & 56, and a couple of "vile ratty" ones to boot, 4, 30 & 38 (personal opinion, 38 was the more unique look at this option).

It seems there have also been a lot of "live/evil/vile try at" clues posted: 1, 5, 11, 21, 47, 49 & 57. For most of these I'll be blunt and say that they didn't surface read correctly to me. One might say "there's an interesting cake to try at the cafe", but I wouldn't say "I'll have a try at tennis/writing/live broadcasting." Maybe I'm missing the point, being an amateur here, but thought I'd mention it.

A few "levity", "verity" and "trivial" clues and I've counted at least 48 anagrams (didn't double check), 16 of them, not surprisingly, using "broadcast" as the anagrind. Mine was among the anagrams, but I was still surprised to see so many.
2.
Clue 13 was my favourite, with a nice definition and a good surface that made it superior to the other clues involving Big Brother – 31 and 46. It also stood out as being a unique example where all the other good ideas were used by two or more competitors. The “trivial telly – ill” anagram was a clever idea, used by two clues 34 and 39 and I gave them joint second as both seemed equally sound to me with good and lit definitions. 5 36 49 and 55 were close behind, again nice and lits, with nothing to divide them, so getting 1 point each. There were a number of other attempts at and lit anagrams which I felt deserved merits – 7 9 23 35 52. I felt the others I gave points to were either more elegantly expressed, or the anagrams used here were slightly more contrived (verily seemed a little forced, and I preferred vile tarty to live tarty as a more accurate description) but nonetheless were all good efforts.