Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Intricate Enigmas of Cryptic Constructs
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Puzzling or mysterious, cloaked in wordplay layers
- 2. Pairs of identical letters often hidden cryptically
- 3. Fictitious names masking authors, a cryptic hint
- 4. Letter transposition within a word, changing order
- 5. Word or phrase mirroring forward and backward
- 7. Precise clue part often disguised or split apart
- 10. Obscure clue style with deceptive surface reading
- 11. Signal word revealing anagrams or reversals herein
- 14. Similarity in meaning key to subtle clue layers
- 17. Rearranged letters craft hidden semantic treasures
- 18. Segmented riddle acts out meanings piece by piece
Down
- 6. Hidden messages formed by first letters of text
- 8. Study of meaning essential for cryptic comprehension
- 9. Letter or word swapped, a cryptic solver’s tool
- 12. Identical sounding words, tricky in cryptic clues
- 13. Picture puzzle encoding words symbolically or phonetically
- 15. Perplexing question that puzzles the mind cryptically
- 16. Poetic puzzle where initial letters align unexpectedly
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