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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 Crossword 4691

Dim16 | 16:59 Sat 15th Jan 2022 | Crosswords

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Post Mortem listener 4691

39ac why does old Charlie = sot?

28dn why does Henry iv duke = neaffe?

At the time I grumbled that solving this puzzle required specialist knowledge ie musical notation. I now see that this part of the preamble turned out to be irrelevant so I guess my grumble was unjustified but anyhow I still hate all puzzles which reference musical notes!

Rte Guide Crossword No 3

Iq 1734

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TheFrogman

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39ac - Chambers gives sot = 'a fool (obs)', ie it is an old word for a Charlie, one definition of which in C is 'a fool'. 28dn - In Henry IV Pt2 Pistol says 'I kiss thy neaffe', where neaffe = 'fist'; 'duke' is of course slang for a fist. Chambers lists neaffe as a Shakespearean spelling of nieve, a fist. In a barred puzzle, anything that appears in Chambers is fair...

17:20 Sat 15th Jan 2022

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TheFrogman

39ac - Chambers gives sot = 'a fool (obs)', ie it is an old word for a Charlie, one definition of which in C is 'a fool'.

28dn - In Henry IV Pt2 Pistol says 'I kiss thy neaffe', where neaffe = 'fist'; 'duke' is of course slang for a fist. Chambers lists neaffe as a Shakespearean spelling of nieve, a fist.

In a barred puzzle, anything that appears in Chambers is fair game.

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