Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Esoteric Roots of Cryptic Clues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Secret language hides a jargon cryptically (5)
- 4. Wordplay rearranged to form a new cryptic answer (7)
Down
- 2. Pictorial puzzle concealing words, ancestor of cryptics (5)
- 3. Poetic code vertically arranged, a precursor style (8)
- 5. Archimedes’ exclamation found in sudden insight (6)
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