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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 Thurs 6th

herbage | 13:31 Thu 06th Dec 2012 | Crosswords

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Hired a straight man (4) is FEED. Yes, hired is feed, paid a fee but why straight man?

dt toughie.

computer game may push me too severely

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Oldred

feed - straight man to a comic

herbage

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Thanks

bookbinder

A comedy cross-talk team is usually composed of the one who makes the funny remarks, and the other one is the straight man. He doesn't say anything funny at all, but pretends that he doesn't understand what his mate is saying.

shoota

He 'feeds' punchlines to the funny one.

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