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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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Visual Shows Mite In Gem

satprof | 05:56 Mon 18th Apr 2022 | Quizzes & Puzzles

15 Answers

Alphapuzzle cryptic clue for today.

The K M Links Game - April 2022 Week 3 Results

Giant Cryptic

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geevo41

Best Answer

optical

05:59 Mon 18th Apr 2022

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emmie

tick?

geevo41

optical

emmie

can you explain geevo..

emmie

ok got it,

mallyh

tic in opal

emmie

opal tic

Neveracrossword

I can't see how Tic is Mite... (Tick/Mite yes, but Tic...?) I'm off to browse in a few dictionaries.

emmie

i think it's one of those anomalies that alpha puzzle throws up

Sunnychap

OPTICAL it is, 0 is 3

Neveracrossword

Thanks, Emmie - but I still think it's wrong! 'Visual shows most of mite in gem' would have worked.

satprof

Question Author

Well done geevo, you get the gong.

After the unsuitable 7-letter possibilites a,re eliminated, just three remain. Two of these end with the same four letters, 2, 5, 21, & 14, leaving 3, 16, 23 at the beginning of one and 25, 23, 26 for the other. If 23 is P, the only two possibilities for the other word, --pical begin with a T. The initial letter for that possibility is 3, which can't be T as T then must be 23. Hence we get 'Optical' in the vertical position and 'ethical' in the horizontal position, both sharing th corner L.

A bit convoluted, I know, but it's like that sometimes.

As for NACW's point, I think that s/he's right but we seem to have to allow a lot of 'poetic' licence to these setters. Incidentally, by a complete coincidence, I discovered that yesterday's Ultra Alphapuzzle (no clue given) was identical in all respects to the one published on May 15th, 2020. Now that's cutting corners, in my book!