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Advanced Cryptic Puzzle Mechanics Crossword for High School is a hard crossword puzzle with 20 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.

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Advanced Cryptic Puzzle Mechanics Crossword for High School
Challenge yourself with this hard-level crossword focused on advanced terminology in cryptic puzzle mechanics, ideal for high school students passionate about wordplay.
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Across
  • 1. Related to accent timing affecting stress and syllables
  • 2. Number of letters in word parts indicated in clues
  • 3. Rearranging letters to form a new word or phrase
  • 4. Common cryptic device hiding word parts in surface reading
  • 5. Word or phrase reading the same forwards and backwards
  • 6. Removal of letters from a word or phrase
  • 10. Word signalling type of wordplay or operation in clue
  • 14. Clue words that indicate a wordplay technique or approach
  • 16. Clue type formed by concatenating smaller word parts
  • 17. Word meaning the same or nearly the same
  • 19. Puzzle device combining letters and symbols to represent words
Down
  • 7. Wordplay involving reading letters backward
  • 8. A smaller part contained within a larger set of letters
  • 9. Clue presenting two synonymous meanings
  • 11. A word sounding like another but with different spelling
  • 12. Type of clue involving hidden wordplay or deception
  • 13. Embedding one word or letters inside another
  • 15. Hidden word formed from initial letters of lines or words
  • 18. Word formed by rearranging letters of another
  • 20. Letters added to complete a word without contributing to definition
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