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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.

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Independent Quixote 985

lapsapchung | 21:46 Sun 28th Dec 2008 | Crosswords

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I'm ashamed to say i have got nothing at all for this one. I know I only have two weeks of the year when I have time to attempt crossowrds, so I need to almost start from scratch each time, but I can't even begin to get my head around Quixote's puzzles, although I've managed all the other cryptics over the last week or so.

I don't want to ask for all the answers but could somebody help me to tune in to the puzzle? Perhaps one or two of the longer answers and some clues as to the way my brain (should I still have one) ought to be heading?

MOS Prize Crossword

polymath 481

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lapsapchung

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PS the Amaretti didn't help with the spelling, did it?

Rollo

Sorry, I don't have that puzzle and I have not seen any questions on it.

Cookiepuss

26A. Manage to get cereal in town (7). Runcorn (run + corn)

8D. Repay men when broke? Heavens! (8). Empyrean
(definition: highest heaven, firmament. Anagram of "repay men")

18D. The man's in a disreputable club - it makes for a sticky situation (8). Adhesive ("he's" in "a dive")

24D. Academic given a fifth grade is finished (4). Done
(don + e)

lapsapchung

Question Author

Thanks for that, it's helped me to get a few more and I think I have got into it now - I'll let you know how I get on

Cookiepuss

Have you got the longest answer, to 16A? Pantomime heroine could contrive win with craftier zeal (5,10).

Alice Fitzwarren from Dick Whittington (anagram of "win craftier zeal")

lapsapchung

Question Author

I'd got Alice! I think I'll have to buy the Indy for a few more weeks before I get myself completely tuned in to this compiler. Thanks to your help I've done well over half of it now which is more than I've ever managed before.

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