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megaadam wrote:
I thought this one was nice, and easy


Less thought more logic. Crossword clues need to be more than 'guess what I'm thinking' exercises. You don't want your baffled solvers to feel that they've been cheated when they see the answer. So ...

megaadam wrote:
Shorthand for the long name. The BBC represents news, for many people.


Possibly (I'm being kind here though!), but your clue needs 'news' to represent the BBC, which is hardly the same thing. 'News source', maybe, but 'news'? Definitions can be indirect (eg. gobstopper for gag) but there does need to be sufficient association for the solver to be confident that the answer is correct.

megaadam wrote:
The dilemma of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark


Well quite. Not really a Danish dilemma then, is it? A human dilemma, a philosophical dilemma, an existential dilemma, certainly. But not one faced by Danes (or Denmark) in particular.

And a dilemma is one thing or another. 'Be' is not a dilemma. It's an 'isolemma' (yeah, I made that up).

megaadam wrote:
eb reflected


Even if we accept 'be' this is inadequate because you've only got half the answer. AB 'reflected' is BA, not ABBA. AB 'reflected on itself' is ABBA. AB 'to and fro' is ABBA.

The watchword for crossword clues is still Ximenes' famous epigram 'You don't have to mean what you say, but you must say what you mean!'
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!

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