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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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Urchin chain reaction

robinruth | 16:01 Mon 02nd Mar 2009 | Crosswords

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Why would 'Actor losing bits of wing in rally' ?IVEN be Niven? (or what else could it be?) Thanks in advance.

daily mail monday 2nd march

Calling Krypton27

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dr b

I'm still pondering the wordplay here, but I also saw "rally" = LIVEN as a possibility.

robinruth

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I wondered about that but can't see the wordplay with that or 'riven', which doesn't even vaguely match the definition. I have found the entire crossword rather like this as far as the clueing goes.
Thanks.

dr b

well, there's a reason these only come out once a month!

robinruth

Question Author

Some are well set, though, aren't they? I liked Notes, by Nod and Mixed Eleven, by Ploy - at least we knew when we had the correct solution - unlike this word.

perseverer

enliven - el?

perseverer

OOPs! Just spotted later post.

robinruth

Question Author

Thanks, Perseverer. We'll have to go for that, but I am not convinced or impressed by it - are you?

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