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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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Sunday Times 4919

dollymay | 19:48 Sun 06th Sep 2020 | Crosswords

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'In audible shock, boy ducks with missile around (5,4).' The answer must be SONIC BOOM, but can someone parse please? I can see the 'audible shock' bit, but where does missile fit in??

Neat,Tidy

Stinker

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JimF

BM = ballistic missile.
O = duck as in cricket and other sports.

JimF

Sorry, son = boy, ICBM = intercontinental ballistic missile

Lie-in King

Sonic boom - 'son' + 'ICBM' (missile, round) 'oo' (ducks; zeros)

Toorak

Son (boy) oo (ducks) inside icbm (intercontinental ballistic missile)

dollymay

Question Author

Thanks all, would never have got ICBM.
Did anyone else like the clue for 19a: Great authors rule, you might say (5,2,4), answer Right as Rain. Took me a while though.

Mamyalynne

Yes, that was a good one.

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