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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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Are Standards Dropping?

venator | 23:18 Tue 28th Feb 2017 | Crosswords

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I've been doing the Times for 50 years or so, and the standard seems to be declining a bit. Perhaps all the good clues have been used? There seem to be more solutions concocted from lots of bits, and one suspects that electronic jiggery pokery is used at times.

Am I a dinosaur?

Lovatts 303 Cryptic

Lovatts 303

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Mamyalynne

I don't think you're a dinosaur, some clues are weak - I guess all setters have bad days.

jno

there are only so many usable words. Either you re-use an old clue or you come up with something different - which will inevitably be a bit harder, easier, sillier etc, than the others. Which would you prefer, as someone who does crosswords?

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