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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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Saga April Wednesday March 30th 2011

maxymax | 20:48 Wed 30th Mar 2011 | Crosswords

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Block one probing Scottish peer (6) - T - M - E. Is it stimie or stymie?

Help for Wesnesday Scotsman

the times

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octogenarian

Stymie according to Chambers

Nibble

Stymie (according to my elders)!

maxymax

Question Author

Thanks guys but why? I have got Chambers and it seems to suggest either and unfortunately the all important 3rd letter is a dead letter.

octogenarian

The last line in Chambers says lay someone a Stymie----to frustrate thwart prevent BLOCK AND BLOCK IS IN CLUE

maxymax

Question Author

Thanks octo - my Chambers says the same but BLOCK is actually mentioned higher up under "stymie,stimie or stimy". Obviousy stymie is the normal way to spell it but knowing the deviousness of the Saga compiler one can never be sure.

teebee

stime

teebee

teebee

Ignore my last

stimie

teebee

Acrosticus

If both spellings are given in the dictionary, and either fits, then either one is a correct solution, and should be accepted.
I put STYMIE which is the more usual spelling.

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