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Arcane Turns of Phrase Enigma
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. A tricky catch? Not sport, but essence of a thing (8)
- 2. Seeing faces in clouds—a phrase for false pattern detection (10)
- 4. Ancient manuscript erased repeatedly — layered meaning here (9)
- 6. Symbolic narrative veiled in phrase's dual meanings (8)
- 8. Perception of connections where none exist, phrase theory (9)
Down
- 3. Roundabout speech cloaks simple idioms with complexity (11)
- 5. Spartan brevity hides true depth in terse communication (7)
- 7. Native phrasing oddly atomical in cryptic nuance (9)
- 9. Substitution of name for related thing in cryptic phraseology (7)
- 10. Rearranged letters conceal cryptic idiomatic secrets (7)
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