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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.

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Guardian Genius 201

RayH | 12:27 Wed 04th Mar 2020 | Crosswords

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Has anyone got anywhere with this yet ?

Alphapuzzle

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roslyn251254

Have a look on the crossword forum thread...a few hints on there...

https://www.crosswordsolver.org/forum/759958/genius-201/

RayH

Question Author

Thanks Roslyn, I've read all the comments but haven't been able to glean anything from them. This crossword is much too complicated for me...

JJ109

I struggled Ray because I didn't understand the substitutions completely with 5a and 7a which I initially got the right answers but input incorrectly. With the hints in that link I was able to see what I was doing incorrectly and have now only 5 clues left to solve.

I shall give you the most complicated answer *with a lot of letters" so you may be able to see the pattern also.

17,14,8Neighbours in a state caring to admit impatienve initially,- burdened with mother a saga unfolding (7,3,14)
The definition is "neighbours in a state" and that is "Trinidad and Tobago"
You now "inflate" the numbers (trio and to) so (Tri) nidad and (to)bag(o) become with "foursome" and "three"
Fonidad and Threebagursome, which is the input
That is then parsed as
Fond(caring) with I(mpatience) + an anagram of "burdened mother a saga"

Great feeling when you work them out, so don't give up, just don't expect to rattle them off!

RayH

Question Author

Thanks jj... you're much too clever for me..

RayH

Question Author

I've given up ! I'll wait for next month's puzzle.
It's far too complicated for me and I can't do a crossword which doesn't have real words for answers..
I may go and do the lottery.. I'll have a much better chance of winning !

JJ109

I understand RayH, I was getting that way myself, until I saw Roslyn's link. I am now down to 4 clues, 2 straight ones and two that need to be manipulated. Shall pick it up again tomorrow, when hopefully my brain may work in a different way!

DaiLo

No, no, that is just not on. Paul gets my goat at the best of times, but the great Victor Borge (possibly the funniest man I ever saw live) would never have inflated 'words' that were scattered around others. Even the blurb is unfair because T&T does not 'contain' TRIO, any more than STREAMING can be said to 'contain' TEN. Agood setter could have made a damn fine crossword on this principle; this is just a dog's breakfast.
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