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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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Why are some portions of the grid shaded? Is there a particular reason for that ?

crescentfrank | 07:32 Fri 26th Feb 2010 | Crosswords

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Can someone throw light on this please ?

crossword - finance related

RT9

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boxtops

Are you talking about a particular crossword? More details please!

crescentfrank

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yes. Take for example the clue. "One of the four cardinal points on an astrological chart"
The answer ANGLES is on a grid which which is shaded in grey as against most other spaces which are white. I fail to understand.

boxtops

It's sometimes because the shaded squares form part of another puzzle (perhaps it's a prize crossword?) so you use the shaded letters to make another word or phone in with that answer - something like that? If you say which crossword you are doing then other ABers may know it and be able to come up with a better answer for you!

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