Explore the essential components and concepts behind cryptic puzzle devices through this challenging crossword.
Enigmatic Tools in Cryptic Puzzles
A crossword exploring key devices and techniques commonly used in cryptic puzzles, enhancing your understanding of cryptic clue mechanics.
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Across
- 1. Replacing letters or parts systematically
- 2. Word spelled the same forwards and backwards
- 6. Type of puzzle using coded clues
- 8. Word that signals a wordplay device
- 11. Hint in a crossword puzzle
- 13. Removing letters from a word
- 15. Puzzle device that duplicates elements
- 17. Rearrangement of letters to form a word
Down
- 3. Clue with two valid meanings
- 4. Combining two wordplay methods
- 5. Word formed from initials
- 7. Part of clue giving the meaning of the answer
- 9. Word meaning the same as another
- 10. Hidden word inside the clue
- 12. Putting one set of letters inside another
- 14. Device involving reading letters backward
- 16. Clue formed by combining smaller parts
- 18. Word that sounds like another
- 19. Word or letter indicating a type of wordplay
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