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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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Very Strange Indeed

brainiac | 17:33 Sat 18th Jan 2020 | Crosswords

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There is exactly the same clue in today's Times prize crossword, and Telegraph prize crossword:

Set to transmit commercial in Brazilian city (5)

Doesn't feel like the same setter - the Times, as usual, is more difficult - but how could it happen?

Guardian Prize Saturday 18 January

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Lie-in King

I thought it was probably the same setter - they know how to pitch their clues & this one seems suitable for both publications.

brainiac

Question Author

Suppose it must be LiK - maybe the setters don't know which day they're going to be used.

Spoffy

If I write a clue that seems relatively obvious I always google it to see if it's been used before, and almost invariably find that it has ('Liking a swan song' for PENCHANT was one I remember recently). So it's almost inevitable that at some point the same clue will appear in different puzzles by different setters on the same day. Having said that, some setters are not averse to 'recycling' their own clues, so these two puzzles could have the same author, thus substantially reducing the level of coincidence.

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