Please Can We Ban ...

[crosswhit99]

(iv) clues containing compound anagrams that omit the second anagram indicator

Two further examples from the same setter:

Wild reactionaries ignoring (*) scene of missile attack (3-2-3)

Grotesque body-snatcher - (*) deaths dismissed for Labour leader (6)

In both examples the only anagram indicator appears at the start followed immediately by the main fodder. The letters to be removed from the fodder ('deaths' and 'scene' respectively) don't appear in the correct order so require a second anagram indicator (at the asterisk) to fairly signal that a compound anagram is involved.

[Mamyalynne]

Not a fan of banning really - with just a couple of exceptions.

[crosswhit99]

Those two were pretty bad, but take a look at this one, again from the same series:

Situated at bottom of the skull, badly tarnishable then (*) gone (7)

[crosswhit99]

Or even:

Strange manoeuvre missing A1 vetch for Caesar (5)

It's not as if it conveys any sensible even meaning !!

[crosswhit99]

Assent to open marriage organised without prima (5,2)

[crosswhit99]

Another example from the same setter:

Abandons damaged chest of drawers, having lost the CD (9)

[crosswhit99]

... and more recently:

Metamorphosing engineered without porno US headgear (5,4)

[crosswhit99]

It gets worse, from the same crossword:

Nostradamus unusually avoiding sum of musquashes (8)