Title Builder Beta See instructions

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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Everyman 3274

wzevon1951 | 20:58 Sun 28th Jun 2009 | Quizzes & Puzzles

2 Answers

A case of far too clever for my own good. 14 across, chess ending overwhelmed friend (9,4)
I remembered a chess gambit (from long ago!!) called the "proffered pawn", I had the o and the r and the d, so managed to convince myself it was right. Small problem with the sense of the thing, but, hey ho tthat's never stopped me in the past. I then got the a in the 4 letter word, so was quite please with myself. But something wasn't quite right, the final letter of the four letter word didn't fit with "guinevere" that was looking odds on.
Rarely have I gone down such a well paved false road!! Of course "smothered mate" is so obvious, I would have probably found it in the same chess book that I was looking for to justify proffered pawn!!
A small chess playing detail.... the proffered pawn is in fact an opening gambit! So if I'd have looked a bit more carefully, I'd have ruled it out!!
Regards
Terry