Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Enigmatic Styles in Cryptic Crosswords
Explore diverse and intriguing cryptic crossword formats crafted to challenge your wordplay and deduction skills.
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Across
- 1. Wordplay involving letter removal
- 2. Comparison used as a clue device
- 3. Wordplay adding letters within another
- 4. Word formed from initials
- 5. Cooperative effect in clue parts
- 6. Clue formed by concatenated word parts
- 7. Answer concealed inside clue text
- 12. Word that sounds like another
- 15. Person who creates cryptic puzzles
Down
- 8. Type of crossword with tricky clues
- 9. Wordplay where one word surrounds another
- 10. Letters rearranged to form a word
- 11. Number of letters in answer
- 13. Word spelled the same backward
- 14. Word that signals wordplay
- 16. Clue with two definitions
- 17. Picture or symbol puzzle
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