A challenging crossword highlighting key concepts and techniques in cryptic puzzle mechanics.
Enigmatic Wordplay and Cluecraft
A challenging crossword exploring the essential mechanics behind cryptic puzzles, including clue types, word manipulations, and solver techniques.
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Across
- 1. Common tricky element or misleading factor
- 2. Indicates letter count in answer
- 3. Word made from initial letters
- 4. Reads the same forwards and backwards
- 5. Compound clue made of smaller word parts
- 7. Sudden break in grammatical structure
- 11. An element appearing twice in clues
- 12. Word that signals a cryptic operation
- 14. Word concealed within the clue text
- 17. Clue operation removing letters
- 18. A clue instruction to spell backward
Down
- 6. Shortened form hinted by cryptic clues
- 8. Rearranged letters forming a hidden word
- 9. Sound-alike word clue
- 10. Part of clue that gives the direct meaning
- 13. Type of puzzle this crossword describes
- 15. Word meaning the same or similar
- 16. Placing one word inside another
- 19. An example of an insert indicator
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