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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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DT Cryptic Crossword 25750

pbeach | 09:57 Fri 17th Oct 2008 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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Is it just me or was this one particularly bad/easy today?
Is there a limit on how many anagrams/words within words that a cryptic crossword can use?

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Answers are birds with a colour in their name

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kayakamina

I haven't seen the crossword your refer to and being a Telegraph one it can't be too difficult.

On the subject of anagrams the 'Ximeneans' - adherents to the rules set down in 'The Art Of Crosswords', say there should be no more than 4 anagrams per puzzle.
As Ximenes died in 1971 the 'Araucarians' feel that is outdated and there should be no restriction.

kayakamina

A further thought on anagrams and Ximenes,

The setter who took over from Ximenes (Azed) recently set a puzzle where all the clues were normal, but the solutions had to be anagrammatised before entry to the grid.

Therefore all the solutions were anagrams, and Azed's mentor would probable had disapproved

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