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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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Ev 1151: Contest By Kcit

DocHH | 16:33 Mon 01st Dec 2014 | Crosswords

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Hello All,
I must admit to initially being rather daunted by the grid format, and I didn't find too many "gifts" on the first pass though the clues. Really had to work the clues, but to be honest they were fair. Having solved rows A, C, G and H, and columns 2, 10, 14 and 15, I took a leap of faith and started populating the strange grid. In the event that actually helped solve quite a few more clues. I'd then got a fully populated grid, but had only 6 of the additional letters. Resorting to trying to anagram the remaining columns lead me to the 2 other additional letters. Stared at the grid for ages, then decided to "displace" the additional letters to the side of the grid, this revealed the CONTEST. More grid gazing, then highlighting the additional letters gave me the PDM in respect of their position and the winning side. A definite sense of achievement, and really I should not have been daunted at all, but perhaps it was relaxing in the sun for a couple of weeks that
Time for a pre-prandial!

Times Cryptic 1120

Rodders123

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Should have added "dulled the brain", it obviously still is dulled.

devadolly

Hello DocHH! Welcome back, that wasn't a very long hols?? You may have finished but I am finding the placing of the across clues very confusing, probably because there is rather a lot of unwanted distraction around here at the moment and a nice comfy DC with kind and soothing words from other dunces would be welcomed.....................doesn't happen these days tho' does it??

djawhufc

Hi

Enjoyed this one. I got lucky with a few quick answers which helped populate the grid. The only niggling doubt I have is the jumble in column 12. The letters all cross check with the across clues so I'm confident they are right but I can't seem to find an anagram of the letters?

Is it just me?

DocHH

Question Author

Hello djawhufc,
12d is an anagram, Chambers Word Wizard doesn't recognise it but the following link will,

http://anagram-solver.net/

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