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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 August crossword

May54 | 18:30 Tue 05th Aug 2008 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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Would some kind soul please help me with this missing answer? I have tried to search the answerbank but the search facility isn't working! 23D Rubber ball's so round(5) S ? R ? O Thanks!

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piggling

sorbo

gen2

SORBO

SO around ORB

May54

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Thanks to you both - they were really quick replies! The answer always looks simple when it's explained - thanks gen2 for that! I can now get this into the post!

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gen2

Zacsmaster, It is not ignored at all.

Every cryptic clue has two parts
a) A straight definition
b) The wordplay leading to the an answer which meets the definition.

The straight definition is always at the very start or at the very end of the clue so in this question, we were either looking for a word that was RUBBER or was ROUND

In this case it was Rubber. Sorbo is a spongy type of rubber.

The wordplay leads to the same answer by the following reasoning

ball = ORB
so = SO
round = around

SO placed around ORB gives SORBO (the rubber)

As a postscript I might add that the straight definition is sometimes chosen to mislead so fo example a FLOWER may be either a bloom or a river (it flows).

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