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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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Exhausting - Used To Be Time To Grow Old (7)

nickgascoign | 17:34 Tue 04th Jun 2024 | Crosswords

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I'm sure the answer is WASTAGE, where 'used to be' is 'was', 't' is time and 'age' is 'grow old'.

But how does 'exhausting' become 'wastage'? They are different parts of speech, and not synonyms as far as I can see.

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barry1010

Wastage is expelled through the exhaust

nickgascoign

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barry1010 agreed, but 'wastage' is a noun and 'exhausting' is a participle. Normally a crossword clue of Guardian standard would match parts of speech.

To put it another way, they are not interchangeable:

'The run was exhausting' is not the same as 'the run was wastage'.

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