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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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Enigmatist And Soup

haras2 | 12:08 Thu 18th Feb 2021 | Crosswords

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A lovely tribute in the Guardian crossword on Tuesday by the above mentioned, remembering what would have been Araucaria's 100th birthday.
Posting a bit late 'cos I've only just finished it

Spectator 2494

Private Eye Crossword 696 4 Down

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Chinajan

Araucaria was my favourite setter. I enjoyed this article published at the time of his death:

https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/crossword-blog/2013/nov/27/crossword-blog-araucaria-john-graham?CMP=twt_gu

haras2

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Well worth a browse Chinajan
Pleased that answers were included !

Buenchico

I can't do cryptic crosswords and I certainly could never set them. (I find it hard enough setting my non-cryptic ones!). However I greatly admire those who've got the brains, the patience and the necessary sense of wickedness to compile cryptic crosswords. I know that many people regarded John Galbraith Graham (a.k.a. Araucaria) with great affection. Here's the crossword which he used to announce his health problems:
https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/25842

. . . and here's his final crossword:
https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26427

Perhaps Araucaria was secretly an AB member? We've currently got two cryptic crossword setters within our membership (unless they're actually one and the same), so this site appears to be the sort of place that they're drawn to!

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