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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.

Remember: You do not have to use the title builder - simply enter the title and question as you normally would and click submit!

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Listener No 4713 Telstar

perseverer | 08:39 Sat 28th May 2022 | Crosswords

10 Answers

First solo Listener effort from The Don, the previous one being as part of Donarino in 2019. Not one of the hardest Listeners but enough in it with clashes and extra letters to find to keep you on your toes. Thanks to The Don.
Not sure about the title, but incidentally it is 60 years in July since Telstar was launched. Who else remembers the poor quality live broadcasts from the USA which lasted about 10 minutes while the satellite was in just the right position?

Ft 17106

22 Saturday May 28Th 2022

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emcee

Reasonable clues and endgame.
Thanks to The Don.

sunny-dave

All done - good puzzle and rather harder than it first seemed.

Thanks to The Don

Now for a weekend of GAA, Rugby and F1 ...

gness

GAA, Rugby and F1? That's my birthday up the spout then. :-(

upsetter

A good workman like puzzle with an unambiguous ending once the penny dropped although we never quite got to the bottom of 30d.

Thanks The Don.

Demios

Hi, was in Oxford on Saturday and simply forgot to buy The Times for the Listener. Would any kind soul be able to send a copy of the puzzle?
Many thanks,
Demios

HawkCrossword

Thanks, The Don

A fairly quick solve, helped by the two long answers being on the more accessible side. It had a couple of words I'd not seen before, and that's always a delight.

sunny-dave

Demios - if you drop me an email to [email protected] then I can send you a pdf of the puzzle.

Dim16

Too difficult for me. Have completed the grid bar 2 cells, identified 15 of the extra letters, and almost all the discarded letters, but have no idea as to the theme. Have also tried scouring the grid for inspiration but none forthcoming.

I found it an enjoyable challenge if ultimately a frustrating one.

Thanks to The Don.

HawkCrossword

Hi Dim16,

The extra letters are what cracked it for me. I didn't spot the message until I had around 15 or so of them, so I'd take another look, in case you've got an error or two in there.

Dim16

Hi HawkCrossword

Just saw your post a few minutes ago and weirdly it must have inspired me because I then had a PDM as to the message. This immediately led to the person. The bad news is that I now know my discarded letters contain an error (no surprise). Hopefully I can now identify the seven words and correct/complete the grid.

Thanks for the encouragement.

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