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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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Sunday Times Cryptic 4455 Sunday October 16th 2011

herbage | 18:21 Sun 16th Oct 2011 | Crosswords

5 Answers

Ia is SOUP. Am I missing something? This does not appear to be cryptic

Also, is " possibly reading" taken as R in 9a a common convention?

and 5d has CURED for smoke. Shouldn't it be SMOKED in the clue

yours pedantically

You Magazine

please help

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velaphi

The clue has "did smoke," so cured does fit.

And I don't know about Great Britain, but here in the US, we refer to the 3 "R"s - reading, writing and 'rithmatic.

boxtops

herbage, it helps next time please if you give us the clues too - we don't all have the papers, but we all like to try to help.

herbage

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Thanks all esp those in US. The clues were
Very high liquid content in this food - SOUP
Went thick as did smoke - extremely dismal in there - CURDLED
Setter's French counterpart possibly reading journal - MEMOIR

yours humbly

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