Hi Ginge,
Spot on with the parse ginge, however, personally, my anomaly with Definition by example clues is, should we lose the capital letter of a pronoun when starting a sentence with 'Maybe' , 'Perhaps' or 'For instance' to qualify it as a DBE and then following with the DBE as I've done and if it interferes with the smooth surface read, should we have poetic licence and hope that the solver can spot the (accidental) misdirection. Or, is it more fair to start with a double capitalised sentence like this: Maybe Trial by jury...
It would be good to hear some feedback on this from others. Marty may pitch in with his view on the fairness as he's been pretty clued up in the past with the DBE rules.
Concerning the abbreviations, V.O (Visiting Order) & Y.O (Youth Offender)
I was at work when I compiled this clue and did really think that these would be recognised, as in my line of work I hear these terms banded about regularly, however, I've just got home and checked in Chambers 12th and you're correct, they are nowhere to be found, so maybe I jumped the gun and it should be omitted from the vote.
On that note, I first learnt about qualifying abbreviations a few years ago when I first started compiling (Pre Joint Effort) when I was still green and got 'Big Dave' to edit one of my first grids and he sent a clue back because I'd used 'Vodka' for 'V' because I was taught that any capitalised pronoun could be used to denote a capital letter - How wrong was I?
Which leads me to another slight anomaly. If a crossword preamble does not state that a certain dictionary is the primary source (ie, Chambers) then where are we with the hard and fast rules of abbreviations because, as you may know, if one enters an abbreviation into Google, it will come up with many (sometimes hundreds of) possibilities that would seem viable but don't appear in Chambers.
Opinions welcome