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Esoteric Lexicons of Cryptic Eloquence
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Mysterious or encoded—puzzle’s hidden essence (7)
- 2. Syntactic unit hiding cryptic structure in phrase (6)
- 3. Witty or pointed phrase, brief and cryptic (7)
- 4. Contradiction that puzzles through apparent sense (7)
- 6. Part-for-whole figure used cryptically in speech (10)
Down
- 5. Layered inscription hides old secrets beneath (10)
- 7. Rearranged wordplay hides meaning within letters (7)
- 8. Marks that clarify or split cryptic idioms (9)
- 9. Manuscript clue book or ancient guide (5)
- 10. Characteristic phrase not literal, getting at nuances (9)
- 11. Substitution of related term in phraseology (7)
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