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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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Yesterday's DT Cryptic 25484

Rain Man4500 | 13:37 Wed 12th Dec 2007 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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Put off eating new mollusc (5)

Answer given is SNAIL

I cannot work out why.

Obviously a snail is a mollusc and possibly the N can be for NEW but other than that, can anyone explain please?

Cryptic Colussus No 192

Sunday Times 4254

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Catron

The rest of snail without the N is sail - one way of saying sail is 'put off'.

Catron

From Chambers thesaurus:

sail
v
1sail for France
embark, set sail, leave port, weigh anchor, put to sea, put off, go/travel by sea, cruise, yacht, boat, ship, voyage

Rain Man4500

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Thanks for that - it's a bit of a stretch but at least i can see where they were going now.

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