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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.

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Telegraph Toughie 1452

Timessolver | 16:16 Fri 28th Aug 2015 | Crosswords

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10a Kindle the source of Dracula fiction, when reduced (5). I have S - O - E.
Could you please give the explanation also?

20a Plant that bird grabs when wanting a peck? (9). I have MISTLETOE. Explanation please?

Strathy

Tls

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Neveracrossword

10 Stoke , kindle/ignite. Bram Stoker wrote Dracula - he's reduced/shortened and becomes Stoke.

writesbad

"bird" is slang for girl/woman who seeks a kiss (peck) under the mistletoe

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Thanks for STOKE, Neveracrossword. I kept meaning to look up who had written the Dracula novels. Thanks, Writesbad. So the answer is not really cryptic, is it? I could see MISTLE as a bird, possibly 'grabbing' ETO; or MISTLE followed by TOE. I was looking to use up all the clue in a cryptic way. It was only asking for non-cryptic general knowledge about the mistletoe custom. Disappointing for a 'toughie'.