A crossword exploring essential techniques used in solving cryptic crossword puzzles.
Ingenious Cryptic Wordplay Strategies
A crossword exploring common techniques and terms used in cryptic puzzles to enhance solving skills.
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Across
- 1. Word reading the same forwards and backwards
- 2. Wordplay technique where one word is placed inside another
- 4. Word that signals the type of wordplay in the clue
- 5. Clue that uses words sounding alike but with different spelling
- 10. Removing letters from a word to get another word
- 11. Puzzles that require wordplay and lateral thinking
- 12. Combining smaller words or parts to form a bigger word
- 14. Rearrangement of letters to form a new word
- 16. Answer concealed within the clue's text
Down
- 3. Clue that serves as both definition and wordplay simultaneously
- 6. The direct meaning part of a cryptic clue
- 7. Implied comparison used as a misleading hint
- 8. A word that means the same as another
- 9. Placing one set of letters inside another
- 13. Reading the word or phrase backwards for a hidden meaning
- 15. Word formed from the initial letters of a phrase
- 17. A puzzling or mysterious element or statement
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