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Esoteric Lexicon of Cryptic Crosswords
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Set of four puzzle installments, united by theme or authorial design
  • 4. A puzzle style where letters shift forward, echoing a shifted acrostic
  • 6. Words spelled without any repeating letters, a letter-perfect puzzle feature
  • 8. Complex maze-like puzzle invoking mythical motifs
  • 10. Unit named after a geophysicist, often involved in acoustic puzzle measurements
Down
  • 2. Hidden words embedded deliberately for puzzlematic espionage
  • 3. Symmetric word form that reads identically forward and backward
  • 5. Encoded message puzzle requiring substitution to unveil
  • 7. Word puzzles formed by breaking and recombining letters cryptically
  • 9. Insertion of a sound or letter within a word—tricksy linguistic device
  • 11. A riddle or puzzle whose solution confounds even the sagest solver

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