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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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Saturday Times Jumbo Cryptic Crossword No 1137

Angelheart24 | 12:21 Sun 08th Mar 2015 | Crosswords

5 Answers

Stuck on 39ac: These soldiers on return initially standing for the queen?(5,9) Think the first word is Royal
and also no idea for 34 dn: Deviation in marks secured by a brainy lot recollected (11)
Thank you in anticipation!

Mos Lancelot

Mephisto 2845

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Neveracrossword

39 Royal Engineers

Lie-in King

39a Royal Engineers - initially, standing, gives 'ER' (queen)
34d Abnormality - 'm(arks)' (in) anag 'a brainy lot'

Neveracrossword

34 Abnormality, deviation. It's an anagram of 'm', marks and 'a brainy lot'.

Angelheart24

Question Author

Thank you Neveracrossword and Lie-in King for your speedy replies!! I guess you both have this one completed! I shall persevere!

mickpatry

I got Royal Engineers OK when I was doing the crossword, but I wasn't happy with the derivation of the answer from the clue (like several others in this crossword).

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