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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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What is the purpose of the shaded questions in crosswords?

gollywog53 | 18:17 Sat 13th Feb 2010 | Crosswords

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Scotsman crossword

Sat Times Jumbo 858 Cryptic 37 and 45 Ac

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boxtops

It depends on the crossword - sometimes there is a competition and the answer is in those words?

sara3

shaded questions, or squares?

gollywog53

Question Author

Thank you Sara3 for the correction, I meant squares. Thanks boxtops for the answer however there is no competition here except for all correct answers and the winner's name is drawn out of a hat. The prize is a Cross pen.

sara3

v nice, Cross make nice pens :o)

I still don't know the answer to your question though!

gollywog53

Question Author

No problem sara3, boxtops has already answered it for me. Thanks anyway.

Kakuro1

What crossword are we talking about here?

lilsecret

All that has completely baffled me!

gollywog53

Question Author

Friday magazine by Gulf News issued every Friday in the UAE

lilsecret

I thought the shaded squares in a crossword grid were to separate the words

boxtops

Lil, I think gollywog means that sometimes a crossword has lighter-coloured squares (not the black ones!) - which spell out a quiz answer. That's how I've responded!

lilsecret

Ahhhhhhhh that makes sense

lilsecret

boxtops - I looked at the Gulf News crossword but could only see black squares

http://www.gulfnews.ca/index.cfm?pid=5719

that's what puzzled me

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