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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.

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Guardian prize crossword 24475

nutcases12 | 15:05 Thu 28th Aug 2008 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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Finished this and guessed some answers- but can't understand how the compilier arrived at some of the solutions- very annoying- any suggestions?
42d "characteristic of the alphabet reported from Brideshead"- we have "flyte" but don't see why.

G "Look up at the second apololyptic house"- "gander "being to look but why the second part?

A " Small boy or girl failed exam at beginning of term"- "avocet," but why?

dt 25,707 a real struggle today help

Village Hall at Heage Mixed Bag

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dundurn

Flyte is the name of the family at the centre of 'Brideshead Revisited' and since the alphabet of the puxzzle refers to birds it's a punning allusion.

Haven't got the puzzle to hand any more but think you've mangled the clue a bit - look up was an instruction to reverse the words and (it must have been apopleptic horse?) gives you red nag - backwards is gander

small boy or girl is viv (short for vivian or vivienne) 'failed i.e. not present in viva voce - a type of exam plus start of term = t

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