No, it's alright!

Yeah, it works if I omit the semicolon.

Hmmm, now that I think about it, I don't think I deleted the pre-filled comment when writing my original query, could it be that I thus fooled your semicolon eraser? Something like

    select * from crew;
    /* blablabla */

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