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Intricate Cryptic Clue Decoding
A crossword exploring essential techniques used in solving cryptic puzzles, featuring key terminology and clue types.
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Across
  • 1. Clue formed by joining smaller word parts
  • 2. Clue directing solvers to take initial characters
  • 5. Word hinting at a special clue operation
  • 8. Putting one set of letters inside another
  • 11. Type of puzzle using misleading clues
  • 13. Rearranged letters to form a new word
Down
  • 3. To conceal meaning using letter manipulation
  • 4. Clue type giving two synonymous meanings
  • 6. Replacing one letter or set of letters
  • 7. Word or phrase reading the same backwards
  • 9. A word placed inside another word
  • 10. Word sounding like another
  • 12. Technique involving reading something backwards
  • 14. Removing one or more letters

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