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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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Guardian Prize 26657

Cryptomaniac | 14:16 Sat 22nd Aug 2015 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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Can anyone explain these please - in what was generally a very easy puzzle:

11ac Stupefy with gamble taken over shipping order (6) Presumably BESET, but what does the abbreviation ES or SE inside BET stand for in shipping lingo?
26 ac George is fit to be the King (5) G-B-E. Presumably GABLE - but why?

Gk Crossword

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Lie-in King

11a Besot - 'bet' (over; round) 's(hipping) o(rder)'
26a G-able - Clark, known as "The King (of Hollywood)"

scorpiojo

Be s(hipping) o(rder) t
G able - Clark Gable, the 'King of Hollywood.'

dannyk13

G(george) + able(fit) Clark Gable was known as The King.

dannyk13

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Gable

Cryptomaniac

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Ah - thanks for the correction both; BESET pretty nearly fits the definition too. Thought of Clark Gable, but the only entertainment king I could think of was Elvis.

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