In a UK daily, you’re making a puzzle named Cryptic #12,554 or whatever. I can’t imagine a format more well suited to making it as “of the now” as possible. People don’t go back and solve the backlog, and if they do finding clues of their time will be the charm of it.

A clue must be only one sentence long? Quite the opposite!

Very happy to see explanations though, which many dictionaries don't offer.

I absolutely don't want to tell you how to live your life, but to me as a constructor, the thing that would be valuable is a notated distinction between "This is in Chambers" and "This is in *these* other dictionaries" and "this has been observed in usage post-2000 CE."

If you’re open to variety cryptics, I run a site gnomoncryptics.com

Okay, got a test and learned I shouldn't release it tonight. Will stream last rewrites in the morning though.

I just turned it on, but the puzzle should be going up later tonight if you wanted to solve first

Interesting final panel for cryptics writers who don’t like using just “morning” for AM

This photograph is weirdly beautiful

Saying water-deprived to delete HOH from some fodder would be fine. Saying water-deprived to delete HOH which is mixed into the fodder is an indirect anagram. We do not do indirect anagrams (unless they're doing something much funner than this.)

https://mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/1720
Oh and here’s another

https://mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/1213#15-across
Here’s one. I think I’ll have another collab that does it in Unch v2

I get a lot of scolding about my clues from people who say they're Ximeneans, but then I look at their grids and shake my head …

(I said once but meant once or twice. Don't come at me.)

I vote that both are fine, but I know they annoy some so do it max once per puzzle.
"Noun-part" is a standard part of the language! A car door is the door of a car! A car door handle is the handle of a car door! These are not exceptions, they are the rule!