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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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Saturday Times Prize Crossword 26268 Saturday November 28Th 2015

ontherun | 14:51 Sat 28th Nov 2015 | Crosswords

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26a Retired person who's manipulated to get money (4).
I have L_O_; and am assuming the answer is LOOT. But can't work out why. Can anyone help please?

OtR

Independent Prize

Tel. Brain Game 37

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Lie-in King

26a Loot - 'tool' (person manipulated, back; retired)

dannyk13

Loot -tool(manipulated person) reversed

bibblebub

tool: a person used to perform dishonourable or unpleasant tasks for another

http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/tool

ontherun

Question Author

Thanks both. I thought of 'TOOL', but thought that's too rude for The Times! Never thought of it as a 'manipulated person'. Think I'll be careful who I say it to!
OtR

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