Title Builder Beta See instructions

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!

Paper & Quiz:

Loading data...

Quiz Number:

Publication Date:

Double Whammy On Listener And Ev...

vetuste_ennemi | 02:49 Mon 22nd Apr 2019 | Crosswords

7 Answers

Good and bad news for this "can do sometimes but not always" solver: got the grid and themes of both the easier than usual Listener ("Optics") and the possibly harder than usual EV ("Scarcity").

Optics: Never seen the device which revealed the theme in the quadrant (so liked that), but can't understand the central entanglement. Working out the "instances" may help, I guess.

Scarcity: got the author (a VE "who he, then?"), got the protagonist. Can't understand the "11 chapter headings".

Help Please Crossword

Guardian Prize

Answers

1 to 7 of 7

Best Answer

No best answer has yet been selected by vetuste_ennemi. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.

For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.

Simonesays

Agree about central tangle, so sorry cannot help yet. Thought EV was more straightforward than you found it. Authors initials not VE, so maybe not got theme yet.

vetuste_ennemi

Question Author

Re EV, Simonsays, got Calvino and Marco Polo, but not how the reduction by removal of "chapter headings" or "bits of them" reveal the protagonist.

roslyn251254

If you google the book ...the 11 chapter headings are there....e.g. chapter 4 has "thin" in the title so remove it from 24a...etc

vetuste_ennemi

Question Author

Thanks, Roslyn.

ProfessorMaisie

In 'optics' 8 answers (4 downs, 4 acrosses) start or end in a single cell of the grid - the four letters that start and complete them (the optic) is written in the single cell.
A similar square of 16 cells has the same four letters writ large.

ProfessorMaisie

...or are you referring to the 3 anagrams (from the sets of the extra/omitted letters) by 'entanglement'?

The missing letters are - HELANTOPTTAACCLTATONEPO
The extra letters are the same but in a different order.

vetuste_ennemi

Question Author

And thank you, Professor Maisie.

1 to 7 of 7

Do you know the answer?