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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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08012006 | 11:43 Sun 02nd Mar 2008 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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18A More like trees with a Dutch disease (6)
ELMIER? ( ugh! )
11D Very timid and unassertive person (11)
* I *QU*MOUSE ?

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grasscarp

11d Milquetoast

08012006

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Thanks grasscarp. Following your kind answer, I found this which may interest people like me who had never heard of the word ! "It�s an eponym, named after a fictional cartoon character named Caspar Milquetoast, invented by the American illustrator Harold Webster in 1924. The strip was called The Timid Soul and appeared every Sunday in the New York Herald Tribune up to his death in 1953. The name is a Frenchified respelling of the old American English term milk toast, an uninspiring, bland dish which was created from slices of buttered toast laid in a dish of milk, usually considered to be food for invalids. There�s an even older foodstuff, milksop, which was untoasted bread soaked in milk, likewise something suitable only for infants or the sick; milksop was a dismissive term for �an effeminate spiritless man or youth; one wanting in courage or manliness�, as the Oxford English Dictionary puts it. Mr Milquetoast is in the same tradition.