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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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Listener 4418: Out Of Line By Sabre

upsetter | 12:37 Sun 02nd Oct 2016 | Crosswords

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After two days we have solved 10 clues and managed to enter one letter, although even that might be wrong.
Is anyone else doing any better?

Sunday Post Easy

Everyman 3652

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perseverer

I wouldn't go as far as saying I was ranting, but it does seem to me that having set 60 odd Listeners, Sabre gets a latitude in clueing that other setters might not. Sometimes you use the wordplay/subsidiary indication (or whatever term you favour) to work out an answer which is confirmed by the definition. Other times you get the answer from the definition, and can confirm it by a little thought about the wordplay. In this puzzle there seemed to be too many answers where figuring out the wordplay from the definition required too much of a leap.

starwalker

I think that the issue of longer established setters being allowed a freer rein than more recent ones, has been mentioned here previously. Hopefully the editors monitor this site and will take notice.

Postigod

Came back to this today having finished 4419 and have belatedly limped over the line. Some wonderful clues, if Herculean levels of difficulty in places. There are still a handful I haven't adequately parsed, but maybe inspiration will come now I don't have to think about them. Overall, a real tour-de-force.

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