A crossword featuring 17 essential slang terms used in cryptic crossword solving to enhance your puzzle vocabulary.
Cryptic Clues and Jargon Unveiled
Explore the intriguing slang and terminology used in cryptic crosswords with this engaging puzzle.
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Across
- 1. Word hidden inside another word
- 2. Switching initial sounds of words in clue
- 3. Char removal from word to form answer
- 4. Word formed by rearranging letters
- 6. Clue where whole clue is both definition and wordplay
- 11. Word containing another word
- 15. Puzzle element using pictures or symbols
Down
- 5. Clue type giving two synonyms
- 7. Word or phrase reading the same forwards and backwards
- 8. Word that signals an anagram or other device
- 9. Important for parsing cryptic clue syntax
- 10. A word sounding like another
- 12. Definition that is the straight meaning of a clue
- 13. Clue formed by putting parts together
- 14. Pun or indirect definition often used in cryptics
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