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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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Mephistopheles 2968

doctordolittle | 17:41 Sun 16th Jul 2017 | Crosswords

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Can someone please explain why 'leaders are so preoccupied cycling round after setback' is BOSSES?

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Everyman 3692

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Toorak

Anagram of obsess ?

doctordolittle

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Seems ridiculously contrived!

Spoffy

I think you're on the right lines - it's OBSESS (='are so preoccupied') reversed ('after setback', ->SSESBO) and then 'cycled around' such that BO comes to the front (->OSSESB, ->BOSSES). Yep, pretty contrived!

Toorak

Thanks for the confirmation!

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