Explore common record-holder terms in this easy crossword puzzle designed for high school students. Focuses on words describing extremes and superlatives in puzzles.
Esoteric Lexicon of Puzzle Craft is a hard crossword puzzle with 16 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Esoteric Lexicon of Puzzle Craft
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- 1. Word or phrase with no repeating letters to confound setters
- 2. System of names used categorically in puzzle taxonomy
- 3. Deviating from the norm, often describing rare puzzle gimmicks
- 4. Surface rewritten clue hiding an earlier, erased message
- 8. Named after a person, often given to a puzzle constructor’s style
- 10. Puzzle styled with pictures or symbols representing words
- 12. Sentence wielding every letter of the alphabet at least once
- 13. Use of words interchangeable in meaning for cryptic misdirection
- 14. Encoded or encrypted, encoded language within a puzzle
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- 5. Pertaining to the art of rearranging letters into new meanings
- 6. Converted into a classical tongue often to disguise meaning
- 7. Symmetrical sequence reading identical forward and backward
- 9. To impose rules limiting potential fill or wordplay
- 11. One who crafts or solves enigmatically masked clues
- 15. Study of meaning shifts crucial in nuanced clue construction
- 16. Nickname for a slow clue type, steady but not obvious
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