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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 Genius Crossword 196 (October 2019)

holmeg73 | 13:34 Thu 17th Oct 2019 | Crosswords

4 Answers

Car issue with wheel: turn sharply around at first (8)

Clue leads to a 9 letter word from which a letter is removed to get the 8 letter entry. I have:
O _ E_ _ _ E _

Agriword 1023

2430 Petite Traveller

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JJ109

Best Answer

I remember "oversteer" = overseer

13:37 Thu 17th Oct 2019

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JJ109

I remember "oversteer" = overseer

JJ109

= reverse (turn) a "round" o at first

JJ109

I remember when I did this one, I couldn't quite parse it but I think it is correct!

holmeg73

Question Author

Thanks jj109! That's me done at last.

Even with your answer, it took a while but I finally see that the parsing is:
Car issue = definition
O = wheel + VEER = turn sharp
(around)
ERST = at first

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