Perfect for beginners with simple, common vocabulary
Esoteric Enigmas and Cryptic Pursuits
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Mathematical puzzle replacing digits with letters
- 2. Intricately carved container designed to confound and delight
- 3. Rare Japanese term for an ancient puzzle or riddle
- 5. Rearranged letters conjuring hidden meanings
- 6. Layered puzzle hobbyist’s term, referring to double elements
- 8. Seven-piece dissection forming shapes through logic
- 11. Grid logic puzzle, aka Picross, with numeric clues
- 14. Puzzle using pictures to represent words phonetically
- 16. Old French name for a trickster or tricky card puzzle
- 18. Cross-sum puzzle combining sudoku and crossword elements
- 19. Words that transform when flipped or rotated
Down
- 4. Intricately twisted, much like metaphorical puzzle paths
- 7. One who crafts riddles veiled in obscurity
- 9. Puzzle playing on words and letters’ identities
- 10. Cryptic nod to puzzle collectors’ specialty stash locale
- 12. Graph depicting equal distances; a puzzler’s spatial challenge
- 13. Number puzzle connecting consecutive digits on a grid
- 15. Obscure Japanese pencil puzzle demanding logical evasion
- 17. Name echoed in cryptic crosswords’ mythological references
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