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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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Listener Crossword No. 4843 Excuses, Excuses By Nipper

emcee | 14:07 Sat 23rd Nov 2024 | Crosswords

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A very clever puzzle with an amusing endgame.

An easy start but the difficulty soon was stepped up. Some nice pieces of logic saved much unnecessary computation.

Thanks, Nipper. I enjoyed the challenge.

Telegraph 30 779

Private Eye 792

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HawkCrossword

Yes, this was very neat, wasn't it? I didn't make many inroads into it with pencil and paper, so resorted to the usual toolkit, but that was sufficient - no trips to B&Q this time! Many thanks, Nipper.

Cruncher

I did enjoy this although I had all my values sorted and the thematic excuse in place with about 20 entries still left to solve which then became a bit of slog - although it was very pleasing to see everything fall into place. I did need a little polite help from the other side to realise that my googled list of (primitive) triples was not the whole story. I think I may have nodded off in that bit of my maths lessons.

perseverer

Finally stumbled over the finishing line. Not too difficult, but probably not concentrating enough. I constantly am amazed how puzzles like this can be constructed.
Thanks, Nipper

Dim16

Delightful.

Managed it mostly with pen and paper (and my phone's calculator) which is always satisfying.

Thanks, Nipper.

BMACMAC

I too was able to complete the inner grid using logic as opposed to computation, for the most part anyway. However, the perimeter is another matter, which I'm still wondering about.

BMACMAC

Further to my previous post: I finally got my pdm, and so underdtood the relevance of the message to the theme! Good stuff Nipper: I really enjoyed this puzzle.

Thanks: BMACMac

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