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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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cryptic crosswords

dbrods | 01:01 Thu 19th Feb 2009 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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So I just started doing cryptic crosswords about a month ago. I do the saturday toronto star crosswords every week, but the clues do not seem to be original and some dont even make sense. can anyone recommend me good crosswords i could do. i would prefer crosswords that do not use british references or slangs since i am not familiar with the culture. im looking for challenging puzzles that are still somewhat simple to understand. thanks

tls 774

TV Programmes Old & New (cryptic clues)

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dr b

learning British slang/references is unavoidable if you're going to work cryptics. Think of it as expanding your horizons.

I think the Financial Times puzzles are good ones to start on.

JDOvengloves

The Guardian crosswords are of high quality, keeping to good crossword rules and they are now free. Offhand I would say there are not too many culture specific references.

The answers are published regularly to check your own efforts.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crossword/

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