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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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Guardian Last Clue

olegrahl | 10:18 Sat 13th Dec 2014 | Crosswords

8 Answers

Unspecified ordinal number restricted by obsolete letter (4)
E-T-

Western Mail

Dt 27672

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scorpiojo

E n th

scorpiojo

Eth - Old English letter + n

EMor1

That is what I had, scorpiojo.
But surely this is usually written nth?

scorpiojo

I agree ...back to the drawing board

EMor1

The parsing is perfect so what the setter is looking for cannot be anything other than 'enth'.

bhg481

"en" is the name of the 14th letter of the alphabet, so writing "nth" instead of "nth" must be the equivalent of writing "1st" instead of "first".
The answer looks too good to be wrong.

bhg481

"nth" instead of "enth"

olegrahl

Question Author

Thanks to all. In my view a lousy clue but there we are. In fact I find the latest generation of prize Xwords very unsatisfactory (O, my Araucaria!). The other week you could not use letters from other answers as a guide to unsolved clues as the answers were synonyms of the solutions. And how many solvers were familiar with Li Sao?

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