Title Builder Beta See instructions

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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The Week 1259

TioMateo | 17:31 Sun 09th May 2021 | Crosswords

4 Answers

Wounding remark by short girl, one like Rihanna (9) B?R?A?I?N My first instinct, given the known letters, was BARBARIAN, justified as :- Barb (wounding remark) +(M)arian (short girl) but, not knowing that Rihanna comes from Barbados, it left me rather shocked that the setter was effectively saying that Rihanna was "someone without taste or refinement" or "a somewhat uncivilised person" (Chambers).

Now that I've learnt Rihanna comes from Barbados, I am relieved that the inoffensive answer is going to be BARBADIAN, but I have a problem with the parsing given by Dannyk13 :- "Barb (wounding remark) + a + dian(a). Where does the middle "a" come from? The clue could easily have read "by a short girl", but it didn't.