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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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Enigmatic Variations N0. 1646 -Borderline By Vagans

Matakari | 20:11 Mon 10th Jun 2024 | Crosswords

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Good evening, I know missing letters are not my bag of tea, but I’m sure to learn something from this one. Help would be appreciated for the following, thanks!

12a Having numbered pages folded round middle of dictionary ( 7 )

22a Catastrophe accepted by familiar Egyptian queen after couch overturned ( 7 )

24a Extra twenty-four hours disorientated Andy after spring ( 7, two words )
33a Pleasure cut short after lout leads call to stop sea chant ( 9 )

7d John taken in by Blue Labour ( 5 )

17d Criticise gunners over rapid airborne braking device ( 9 )

PREAMBLE: Two down entries are on the BORDERLINE and clued without definition. Three other contiguous border entries are appropriate to their location. Wordplay in all other clues indicates the answer with an extra letter that is not entered in the grid; these spell out an instruction affecting 32 cells. Chambers Dictionary ( 2016 ) is recommended; 37a is in the Oxford Dictionary of English.

Comhar Linn Crossword

Private Eye 780 - 13-A

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Neveracrossword

No letters?

12 Folioed

22 Debacle

24 Leap Day

7 Slave

I've given answers so that you can concentrate on the missing letters aspect. I know you're keen to learn....

Matakari

Question Author

Many thanks, NACW, and sorry for omitting the letters I had in my haste to request answers. For 17, I have: ?O???????
And 33a: ???A??E??

Neveracrossword

17 Yo Heave Ho

33 Parachute

I hope that batch will fill your grid up a bit.

PS Did you ever go back to your Private Eye and CC puzzle threads? I think we gave you some help with those.

Matakari

Question Author

Many thanks, NACW! 17a YO-HEAVE-HO is one of the borderline/contiguous borders with 24a LEAP DAY. I’m not sure how or what to enter. A similar question with 33a PARACHUTE and 5d OFFAS DYKE
I completed the Eye Crossword, but have put aside the CC puzzle for later.

Neveracrossword

Matakari, I'm sorry, but I don't understand your comment or your dilemma! All the answers I've given you are entered normally at their numbered spots. I think you might need to read the preamble again, see where your thinking has gone wrong.

PS Glad you finished Private Eye. It's always a little bit dispiriting to see answers unacknowledged!

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