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Enigmatic Wordplay and Cryptic Clues
A challenging crossword filled with cryptic riddle terms and clever wordplay elements to test your puzzle-solving skills.
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Across
  • 2. Word sounding like another
  • 3. Word spelled the same forwards and backwards
  • 4. Putting letters inside other letters
  • 6. Poem or puzzle with vertical hidden word
  • 9. Joining parts to form a new word
  • 10. Removing letters in wordplay
  • 14. Word formed by rearranging letters
  • 16. Puzzle using pictures to represent words
Down
  • 1. Rotational letter shift in cryptic clues
  • 5. Cryptic clue indicator to use two meanings
  • 7. A joke exploiting different meanings of a word
  • 8. Part of clue giving the meaning
  • 11. Arrangement of words and phrases
  • 12. Hint showing how to interpret clue
  • 13. Clue formed by combining smaller parts
  • 15. A type of puzzle clue that is tricky
  • 17. Basic unit used in word puzzles

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