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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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Inquisitor 137 No Yens by Schadenfreude

Speravi | 12:41 Sun 09th Aug 2009 | Crosswords

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Congratulations to anyone who has finished this. It's tough, much more difficult than anything the Listener series has had to offer this year. I have six entries to make, with 22ac being the most puzzling - any help would be appreciated.

For anyone struggling with this, my strategy was, firstly, to identify the 20 clues with the extra word - their grid lengths match the bracketed numbers. That could lead to enough of the quotation to be helpful. Secondly, I tried the non-asterisked remaining clues. This confirmed the theme. I left the asterisked clues until last. Bradford was of limited help. Some of the thematic material in its untreated form was pretty recondite to me. Good luck with it, and I doff my hat to Schadenfreude - the construction is superbly elegant.

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Rapparee

This is an angram of chore inside a three letter bird followed by a two letter abbreviation for unserviceable (ie not working).

nigel2

Thanks - have just found it. Also not convinced about the answer to 7 down - the entry seems obvious but the thematic item difficult to determine!

Rapparee

A bit obscure this one. I came up with Francesco Bernia (anag BRAIN + E). He was an Italian of the 16th century and also known as Berni. The name fitted so I went with it!

nigel2

Very obscure - not listed among poets I've seen but thanks for the tip!

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