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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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Herculis Alternative Spellings

bookend | 13:33 Mon 01st Oct 2007 | Quizzes & Puzzles

41 Answers

There's been some debate on Q&P in recent weeks on whether The Daily Telegraph will accept alternative spellings to words in the Saturday GK and Monday Herculis crosswords.

Last week, there was the question of 1 down in the Herculis: Was it Appetiser or Appetizer? The majority opinion on AB was that it was Appetiser as it was likely the crossword setter (KM?) had the English spelling in mind.

According to the answers printed today, the correct answer was Appetizer. The answers do not state "1d Appetiser/Appetizer", so clearly those of us that used the british spelling got it wrong. More importantly, it shows that a degree of flexibility on this matter is not shown by the Daily Telegraph and that alternative spellings are NOT acceptable.

I find it quite annoying to think that the people who pick the submitted crossword out of the bag or whatever can discard an otherwise correct crossword in this way.

I wonder if this issue has been taken up with the DT crossword editor.