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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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Sunday Times Cryptic 4575 Sunday February 2Nd 2014

herbage | 13:06 Tue 04th Feb 2014 | Crosswords

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5d drug's no use for black singers is BARITONES. Could someone please parse it

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Sunday Times Prize Crossword 4575 Sunday February 2Nd 2014

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TheFrogman

BARBITONE'S (type of barbiturate) missing ('no use for') B (black) = BARITONES

herbage

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Thanks. The only thing that came to my mind was barbiturates

TheFrogman

I'm not happy with the clue for two reasons - firstly if there's 'no use for' B then the answer should be ARITONES (if I've got no use for green vegetables then I don't have any of them) and secondly the "apostrophe-s" is really doing double duty - because we need BARBITONE'S (with an S) it can't also be an abbreviation for HAS, so the word play translates as 'BARBITONES no use for B'; if the solution were BARITONE, this version would be better: 'Drug's no use for black singer', ie 'BARBITONE has no use for B'.

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