A crossword exploring essential techniques used in solving cryptic crossword puzzles.
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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