Title Builder Beta See instructions

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!

Paper & Quiz:

Loading data...

Quiz Number:

Publication Date:

2 Old Telegraph Clues For Parsing...

Delichon | 17:40 Wed 20th Sep 2023 | Crosswords

7 Answers

New here and would be grateful to anyone who can help me parse these two clues from puzzle No. 19 in The Telegraph's "Big Book of Cryptic Crosswords 2":

"One way to smash ball in gap (8)" - DISTANCE

"Sit back to run city policy (7)" - RECLINE

Tls 1494

The Week 1380

Answers

1 to 7 of 7

Best Answer

No best answer has yet been selected by Delichon. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.

For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.

Toorak

2 r(un) ec (city - london) line (policy)

Lie-in King

Distance - 'i (one) st(reet; way)' (to smash; go in) 'dance' (ball)

Recline - 'r(un) EC (City [of London]) line (policy)'

bobbinwales

St street/ way in dance ( bAll)

Toorak

1 I (one) st (way) inside dance (ball)

Lie-in King

And welcome to AB, Delichon 🙂

bobbinwales

Yes I missed the I one

Delichon

Question Author

Thank you all very much - for the explanations and the welcome. Ah... yes... I stupidly got hung up on TAN (as in "beat") for "smash" and just never thought of the postcode for "city". I will next time!

1 to 7 of 7

Do you know the answer?