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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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Listener 4789 Die Hard By Charybdis

HawkCrossword | 11:49 Sun 12th Nov 2023 | Crosswords

7 Answers

A tough puzzle with frugal clues, treated throughout, but it all came together in a great ending. I loved it - many thanks, Charybdis.

Business Post 1756

Everyman 4021

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perseverer

I made heavy weather of this. It was tricky enough but for several clues I decided the answer had to be something (it wasn't) and wasted time and effort trying to make the wordplay fit. The spelled out message contained a word that was new to me so more time wasted thinking I had gone astray. As I don't submit, the mess I made of the final step does not really matter, but now I realise that was easier too.

So thanks, Charybdis, I think.

upsetter

We were expecting an easier run out than last week but this was still quite tough.

It all worked out nicely in the end although we struggled a bit imagining how the final image should look.

Many thanks, Charybdis.

u10

Unfortunately the first word of the title gave too much away about the thematic object.

u10

Where are all the comments? I guess everyone is now discussing these puzzles on crossword help forum or the Listener forum on Facebook.

upsetter

@u10 - I think our self imposed rule of never giving any information that could be considered to be a hint means that we have just become a list of people crossing the finishing line.

HawkCrossword

Question Author

I can't speak for anyone else, but I like to post after I've finished the puzzle, however useful or otherwise it might be to others. I've invested a lot of time and mental energy in solving the puzzle, and it helps me to share some of my immediate thoughts and feelings, as well as thank/give feedback to the setter (if any are reading). I set the odd puzzle myself, so I like to read/understand how solvers feel after they've tackled one.

emcee

Well, after last week's puzzle I was hoping for something a bit easier. Sadly, it was not to be.

With my workload at the moment, this puzzle has been done in bits again. If anything, I thought the clues were even tougher than last week's puzzle.

It will be interesting to see if my rendering of the endgame correlates with that expected. I think it fulfills everything needed.

Thanks, Charybdis. That was quite a struggle for this solver.

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