Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Enigmatic Lexicons of Cryptic Phrases
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. State of perplexity; puzzle often found in cryptics
- 3. Subconscious plagiarism—hidden recall of forgotten phrase
- 4. Quality of words sharing similar meaning, crucial in clues
- 5. Using symbolic language to convey deeper meaning
- 9. Smoked fish misleads—false trail in mystery
Down
- 2. Pertaining to expressions whose meaning defies logic
- 6. Phrase with dual meaning, often risqué or sly
- 7. Relating to rearranged letters forming new words
- 8. Extremely careful, like parsing cryptic punctuation
- 10. Ancient manuscript with overwritten text, layered meaning
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