Title Builder Beta See instructions

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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The Week 1214

TioMateo | 17:28 Wed 24th Jun 2020 | Crosswords

3 Answers

1) Match announcement heard in bars (5) B?N?S

2) Beauty proves the rule? Not entirely (6) E?T?E? Presumably this is ESTHER, being contained within (not entirely) "proves the rule". But I don't think it's unreasonable (or,as some might call it "too Ximenean") to complain that ESTHER is not a synonym for BEAUTY. He could easily have said "A beauty, perhaps, proves the rule" or even "She proves the rule". But he didn't, and I think there is a clear difference between libertarianism and simply sloppy clues.

Incidentally, for those possibly struggling with 23 Across, ("Misplaced pretention for household gear") (3-7), the typo needs correcting from "pretention" to "pretension" to give TIN-OPENERS. I do wish Mr Moorey could proof read his puzzles prior to them being printed, or at least pay someone else to proof read them for him.