Title Builder Beta See instructions

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!

Paper & Quiz:

Loading data...

Quiz Number:

Publication Date:

Help With Parsing Please

michaeljhoward | 18:21 Tue 31st Aug 2021 | Crosswords

6 Answers

Observer crossword No. 3907

Blunder, as tin-eared poet may? (3,1,4,5)
Leading car brand announced:old explorer (5,4)
I have 'Put a foot wrong' and 'Marco Polo' respectively but cannot parse. Thanks in advance

Crossword

Phoenix Crossword Queries

Answers

1 to 6 of 6

Best Answer

No best answer has yet been selected by michaeljhoward. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.

For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.

JimF

Traditional poetry is written in feet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_(prosody)

Mamyalynne

1 Foot/feet are poetry terms, hence a poor hearing Poet may get rhyme wrong.

JimF

Car brand = Polo
Brand announced = Marc (sounds like marque)
O = old

Mamyalynne

2 Marque (sounds like) O(ld) Polo (Car)

Lie-in King

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/foot

14. prosody a group of two or more syllables in which one syllable has the major stress, forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm

Marco Polo - "marque" (brand, announced) + 'o(ld)' (leading; first) + 'Polo' (car)

JimF

Got there in the end! :-)

1 to 6 of 6

Do you know the answer?