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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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Not So Much A Quesion As An Observation... ...

BigMac | 07:10 Sun 07th Sep 2014 | Crosswords

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Anyone else noticed the increasing frequency with which the same (or very similar) clues are appearing on the same day in different publications' croswords?

For example, from yesterday:

Times 25,885
23a Hot fruit loaf gets left out? (6)

Financial Times 14,720
30a Hot bread, one left out (6)

Independent 8704

Independent Prize Crossword 8704 Saturday September 6Th 2014

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jim360

Don't really tackle enough daily cryptics to notice this, but I'm sure that on at least one occasion the same clue has appeared in two different puzzles in the same paper on the same day! The Times Jumbo and the Listener are on the same double-page spread and I think I remember the same word appearing with two very similar clues...

I think it's probably just coincidence. Some words do lend themselves to the same basic idea though so setters just end up accidentally copying each other.

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