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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.

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Times Jumbo Cryptic

frameshift | 11:20 Sun 23rd Aug 2009 | Crosswords

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23d In rising numbers catch fish with this (5, 3)
- T - - - N - T STAKE NET?
30a Do quickly stop, take away and kill pirate (5, 3)
- - O - K - F - KNOCK OFF?
44a Take rural character from heart of Lozere to meet Pope (8) - R - A - I - E URBANIZE?

I think that these are the answers, but I can't quite see why. Thanks a lot for any help and explanations.

Everyman 3282

mos 16d

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Sandy-Wroe

A pirated copy is a 'knock off'.

Lie-in King

23d Stake net - 'take' (catch) (in) 'tens' (rising)
30a Knock off - x5 (!) as: do quickly; stop; take away; kill & pirate
44a Urbanize - (Pope) Urban I + (Lo) ze (re)

frameshift

Question Author

Once again, many thanks for explanations.

kilifi

23d - Catch = take, written in tens (numbers) inverted
30a - Knock off can be used for do quickly, stop, take away, kill and pirate (the verb)
44a Urbane 1 was a pope and ze are the two middle letters of Lozere

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