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Welcome to Title Builder Beta.

This small piece of kit is designed to make building your Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle question more effective. It should make finding your question easier for others and, the easier it is to find, the more likely someone is to answer it!

To build an easy to find question title simply select the paper and quiz, enter the quiz number if relevant and fill in the Publication Date. Once you’re happy click “Build Title” and the information should populate the Title field. Fill in the final required details of your question as you normally would, and click submit.

As this is a Beta we only have a limited number of papers and quizzes listed. If you think your favourite Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle should be listed here don’t hesitate to contact us.

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Genius Crossword N0 261 By Pascuale

Matakari | 18:56 Wed 05th Mar 2025 | Crosswords

10 Answers

Good evening, help would be appreciated for the following, thanks…

( Ten clues contain neither wordplay nor definition; each has a sequence of letters that can be arranged to form its entry, a thematic item. Wordplay in eight further clues each omits a different letter; these can be arranged to give the recipients of the items. The remaining clues are normal.)

1a What makes Arab carry tent round in the desert? (9,4): C???B?R??????
13a Length of cloth, partially yellow (3) O??
14a Lava from terrific eruption (4) : R???
27a Crack my one or two misleading clues! (6) : ?O?O?Y

2d Southern saint immersed in a Russian river (7) : ??S?R??
16d Party offering gin or beer (4-2-3) : ??N?B?R?E

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Tls 1567

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Captain2

2d Austral (U is extra letter)

Tilly2

1a Cranberry bush

Toorak

13 ell

Neveracrossword

Toorak, I haven't done this puzzle, but I think Ell was discounted on another thread - the setter has included some sneaky traps, answers that might fall into one category or another.

This is the most Matakari-unfriendly puzzle I've seen for ages. Private Eye was much more approachable.

Toorak

Thanks - it sounds like a tricky one. I haven't done it either.

JJ109

1a Cranberry Tart (one of the ten thematic answers)

14a is another thematic answer

27a is another thematic answer

16d is another thematic answer

JJ109

13a is also a thematic answer

JJ109

incidentally your second O of 27a is incorrect

Neveracrossword

Matakari, if you're looking in this morning - I think you quite like Fieldfare,setter of this week's Spectator puzzle, and it's a pretty straightforward one. Hope you enjoy it!