You must give the whole clue, number of letters in answer and any letters you already have.
We don't all have the crossword in front of us.
You can also amend things by 'answering' on your initial thread.
I know scorpiojo, the notes are useful when the system works but it seems to me that many of the posters who are having difficulty don't get a question details box and also are unable to reply to their own questions to give additional info- either because there is no answer box or the submit button is greyed out. It's an odd situation which I've raised in Ed's Blog and in Suggestions but I've had no acknowledgements and there has been no reply there from the Ed so we don't know what the issue is