Perfect for beginners with simple, common vocabulary
Enigmatic Tools of Cryptic Craft is a medium crossword puzzle with 20 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
Enigmatic Tools of Cryptic Craft
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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Across
- 1. Pun or trickery found inside cryptic clues
- 2. Twofold definition or wordplay device in clues
- 3. Pause in poetry that signals a break or mystery
- 5. A common figure or motif used in cryptic clues
- 7. Trick word; a tricky device to confuse or disguise
- 9. Patterns that might hint at letter movement or shape
- 12. Figure of speech implying a hidden meaning
- 14. Basic units used repeatedly in puzzle solving
- 16. Embedding a word inside another inside clues
- 20. Puzzle using pictures to represent words or parts
Down
- 4. Essential letters often shuffled or omitted
- 6. Abbreviation sometimes used for a popular puzzle form
- 8. To place side by side for contrast or meaning
- 10. A puzzling or inexplicable device or message
- 11. Signs or hints guiding solvers to word parts
- 13. Precise placement often matters in cryptic parsing
- 15. Type of word hidden within a phrase or sentence
- 17. Words similar in meaning, common in clue wordplay
- 18. Mysterious or hidden meaning behind a puzzling clue
- 19. A mixer rearranges letters to create new words
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