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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 4586 Square Deal? By Tiburon

NickorWan | 06:55 Sat 21st Dec 2019 | Crosswords

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A lovely puzzle, thanks, Tiburon. I do like a bit of cut and paste when we are neatly guided to the final arrangement as here.

Season's best to all.

I Cryptic Crossword 2768

St29240

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12barblues

Well, at least it’s not a wren! Always amazed at such constructions. Thank you Tiburon, not quite as daunting as the preamble suggested. Season’s greetings to all.

olichant

Really lovely puzzle. I fluffed the endgame a number of times before getting what I was looking for.

Cruncher

Very pretty. Always a delight to get my Pritt stick out at this time of year

contendo

How come I have a non-word at 17A, dictated by the four crossing down lights?

PhilipW

Yes, a lovely puzzle - thanks Tiburon. Contendo - I could see no problem with 17A so it may be worth your checking it

sunny-dave

Excellent - just excellent

Some (very) hard clues, a tricky (but satisfying) gridfill and absolutely no if/buts about the missing or misprinted letters - all beautifully precise.

The Blue Peter moment with scissors and sticky-backed-plastic was scary - but even that I got right first time due to the accuracy of the instructions.

Thanks Tiburon - a Christmas Gem.

sunny-dave

... and, if I may bend our self-imposed purdah here, in the spirit of the season - a small hint to Contendo :

17 ac includes a '2 letter cell' and the orientation of the divider is crucial.

Merry Christmas everyone and hopes for another year of Happy Listenering in 2020.

Dave x

contendo

Thanks for the hint Sunny-Dave. The strange thing is that two of my down lights crossing 17A have two-letter cells, but neither of them is in 17A. The other two lights have misprinted definitions.

pushmi-pullyu

Thank you from me too Sunny Dave: I was in the same spot as Contendo.

Hagen

I'm not too keen on cut-and-paste, and I'll confess I didn't go the full distance with this once I had a full grid and worked out what was required, but that reflects on my preferences rather than the puzzle itself. Hats off to Tiburon for an impressive construction.

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