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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.

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I Paper 1684

mikey4444 | 19:01 Sat 02nd Jul 2016 | Crosswords

15 Answers

18a....Revised arid play using concise language....LAPIDARY ?

I can't see the word play here at all !

Ft Cryptic

Times Jumbo Cryptic 1215

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elliemay1

Best Answer

lapidary ‎(not comparable) Pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of working them. Suitable for inscriptions; efficient, stately, concise; embodying the refinement and precision characteristic of stone-cutting

19:03 Sat 02nd Jul 2016

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Jackdaw33

Anagram of arid play

elliemay1

lapidary ‎(not comparable)

Pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of working them.
Suitable for inscriptions; efficient, stately, concise; embodying the refinement and precision characteristic of stone-cutting

Tilly2

How does the clue fit lapidary? It's to do with stones, isn't it?

mikey4444

Question Author

Yes, I got that quite early on !

But where is the word LAPIDARY defined within the clue ?

fiction-factory

It's the definition mikey may be querying.
As well as the gem engraving meaning I found this
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/lapidary

Tilly2

I don't like that clue.

elliemay1

^ see my post 19.03

mikey4444

Question Author

Thanks at 19:04....sorry but everybody's avatar is appearing but no name underneath, so I can't thanks you by name !

( this is happening a lot recently )

Jackdaw33

Another meaning of lapidary is a style of concise writing or speech, deriving from the short inscriptions needed on monuments, which are made of stone.

fiction-factory

Crossed posts elliemay but you beat me to it and deserve Best Answer

elliemay1

That's okay, F-f. Thanks x

mikey4444

Question Author

Quite happy to change BA !....Thanks to FF and everybody else.

elliemay1

Thanks mikey

mikey4444

Question Author

I have switched to Firefox, as this avatar business is happening all the time on CHROME !