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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.

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Sunday Telegraph Enigmatic Variations 658

Patch49 | 15:06 Tue 07th Jun 2005 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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22ac Old skilled craft demonstrated by innovative scenic railway half completed. The answer is an abbreviation but I can't work it out.

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Quizmonster

It would have helped if you had told us how many letters we were dealing with! However, I suspect they might be looking for SCIENCRY. That's an anagram (ie 'innovative' version of) 'scenic' plus 'ry', the standard crossword abbreviation for 'railway'. This might have meant a 'skilled craft' - as in 'science' - in olden times.

(I have to say, however, that The Oxford English Dictionary does not list that word, though it does appear on various web-pages. Could that be it?

Quizmonster

Actually, sciencry appears on only one web-page, though sciencery - which seems more logical though it doesn't fit the given letters, having only one 'e' to play with - appears on several.

Patch49

Question Author

Yes it would have helped me if the setters had given the length of the answer to be abbreviated, but they didn't! Thanks for the suggestion - I'll let you know if it was right.

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