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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 24754: explanations?

RogerBear | 19:45 Sat 18th Jul 2009 | Crosswords

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Got the answers just fine yesterday (and have confirmed them), but can't understand the subsidiaries:

5d. Change taps to save shellfish: SHRIMP.

14d. Stylish and charming society girl ejected when broadcasting: ON AIR.

20a. (rank outsider) The Undertaker: TRIER.

Guardian

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dr b

14d, debonair - deb

Infomaniac

14d Stylish and charming = Debonair minus Deb for society girl = On air

dr b

5, save = SCRIMP, change taps (Cold to Hot) for sHrimp

vegasmad

14d. stylish and charming = debonair minus deb (society girl) = on air (broadcasting)

grasscarp

To save is scrimp. If you change C to H (cold to Hot) you get shrimp

grasscarp

There you go. First there was nothing and when my back was turned you all snuck in.

kayakamina

Trier....TIER (ranK) outside R

RogerBear

Question Author

Thank you all. These are mostly quite obvious when you are told. I had got TIER = rank myself, but the split of "outsider" into "outside R" is especially devious!

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