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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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Independent Prize Crossword 9099 Saturday December 12Th 2015

aptrefor | 17:12 Sat 12th Dec 2015 | Crosswords

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Last one. It's always the short ones!
17a. Can't stand after removal of a flipping thorn? I have e?h

Irish News Cryptic

Guardian

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bibblebub

ETH = thorn

'hate' reversed and A removed
defn 3 http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/thorn

bibblebub

(i meant defn 5 not 3)

aptrefor

Question Author

Thank you bibblebub. You learn something every day!

bibblebub

you're very welcome

it's been mentioned on QI a couple of times that when you see the word YE in old signs that word is not said as 'ye' but is pronounced as 'the' (the same as the present day definite article) - the Y was close to the symbol for an eth and was used for it in signs and printing

Telescoper

My last one is 23 across:

Reading down at one point score twice instead in this? (5)

I have F?O?Y

I am sure it is FOOTY but I don't get the wordplay. Any offers?

hellbent

Not surprised, there were some over-convoluted wordplays for a daily cryptic here. If I have got this one right:

Reading = R (one of the 3 R's)

If you put that down at some point instead you can get FORTY which is 2 X 20 - SCORE TWICE.

Ouch!

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