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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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Times Jumbo 1078 Cryptic

stevenj | 20:44 Sat 15th Feb 2014 | Crosswords

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A form of silicate: ie,_ is (4)
I have -a-c so the answer seems to be talc. But, yet again, I don't understand the wordplay. And, yet again, it's the last one. So infuriating! But it is certainly helping me develop as a cruciverbalist (I've just learnt that word. The computer doesn't believe me and has tried to change it!) when you kind people explain.
Steven

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Thei 942

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scorpiojo

Take ie and is from silicate and you're left with talc

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stevenj

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Thanknyounso much.

scorpiojo

Glad to help

stevenj

Question Author

Sorry about those redundant Ns!

stevenj

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Sorry but may I have a further bite at this one please? What is the reason for the comma and the underscore? Is the latter supposed to be a minus sign?
Steven

scorpiojo

I think the underscore just highlights the answer, not sure about the comma, sorry.

factor-fiction

the colon and the comma make it a sort of valid sentence. "A form of silicate:, i.e. talc is"

factor-fiction

Sorry, forgot to add that the underscore represents the missing word

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