A challenging crossword exploring the essential mechanics behind cryptic puzzles, including clue types, word manipulations, and solver techniques.
Enigmatic Codes and Hidden Clues
A challenging crossword highlighting key concepts and techniques in cryptic puzzle mechanics.
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Across
- 1. Strategies used to solve cryptic clues
- 2. Two clues combined to form one word
- 3. Part of clue giving the meaning directly
- 4. Remove letters to shorten a word
- 5. To give a false impression in clues
- 7. Signal used to show a wordplay method
- 10. Initial letters forming a hidden message
- 11. Without basis; often a misleading clue
- 14. To encode or hide meaning in text
- 20. Comparison hinting at clue meaning
Down
- 6. Letters written underneath letters
- 8. Word formed by rearranging letters
- 9. Wordplay involving backward spelling
- 12. Word inside another word indicator
- 13. Analyzing clue components for solution
- 15. Putting one word inside another
- 16. Clue involving words that sound alike
- 17. Type of puzzling clue with hidden meaning
- 18. A word meaning the same as another
- 19. Word formed by joining smaller words
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