Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Esoteric Constructs of Cryptic Enigmas
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Process adapting foreign words into a classical cryptic guise
- 2. Signal within clue guiding the solver’s transformation
- 3. Compound word formed by successive parts’ discreet summation
- 5. Letter count next to clue, detailing answer’s exact length
- 10. Enigmatic style where clues hide meaning beneath wordplay
Down
- 4. Twin meanings compressed into one clue's elusive phrase
- 6. Puzzle type using pictures or letters to suggest words
- 7. Device for shuffling letters into fresh form, often a solver's bane
- 8. Reading symmetric, forwards or backwards, precisely the same
- 9. Hidden message revealed down the first letters, often thematic
- 11. Switch initial sounds to unveil a pun or double clue
- 12. Palm reading? No, but a cryptic misdirection to a clue component
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