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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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Tgph Cryptic 25830

Escutcheon | 17:49 Fri 30th Jan 2009 | Crosswords

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Last one! 1A "Society girl, a current collector (5) S*A*E.
I can only think of SKATE (S+KATE) but where does the "current collector" come in unless it refers to the fish?

dt 25839

irelands own 1044

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pbeach

Skate - as in fish

Philoctetes

The "Skate" is another word for the collection "shoe" that trains south of London use to pick up electricity from the third rail. Bit obscure, though

pbeach

Interesting I never considered that as a possible explanation. But yes.... Skate "a current collector on an electric railway train that collects its current from a third rail"

Quizmonkey

Definitely the right def, Phil, but weirdly not supported by Chambers.

Escutcheon

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Thanks all. The only fishy thing about railways that I remember is the fishplate connecting rails before they had continuous welding!

Escutcheon

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P.S. We always used to call it a shoe!

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