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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.

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Sunday Times 13/3/16 Crossword 4685

Timessolver | 08:47 Thu 17th Mar 2016 | Crosswords

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1a A number of minerals are unstable (4,2,4). I have - I - -/- N/- E - S. Any help please, also explanation? 25a Cuckoo, or just disorganised to some extent (4). I have - N - S. Is it ANIS? If so, why?

Spectator 2252

Dt 28064

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fiction-factory

Life on Mars
Yes to ANIS

fiction-factory

Hidden in disorgANISed

fiction-factory

Life on Mars is an anagram.
It's also a David Bowie number (song)

aelmpvw

1a anagram 'of minerals'
anis hidden in disorganised

Timessolver

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Thank you fiction-factory. LIFE ON MARS brilliant! I kind of thought ANIS from orgANISed, but what does ANIS mean?

fiction-factory

It's the plural of ANI- a cuckoo. I'm not sure the clue indicates plural hough

fiction-factory

I did wonder if the plural of cuckoo was also cuckoo bit it is cuckoos

Timessolver

Question Author

Thanks! News to me that 'ani' is a kind of cuckoo!

fiction-factory

I'm still not sure why it is ANIS rather than ANI

dannyk13

FF here:-
Anis - definition of anis by The Free Dictionary www.thefreedictionary.com/anis Any of several chiefly tropical American birds of the genus Crotophaga, related to the cuckoo and having black plumage and a long tail

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