A crossword exploring essential techniques used in solving cryptic crossword puzzles.
Mastering Cryptic Clue Strategies
A crossword exploring essential techniques and terms used in solving and constructing cryptic crossword clues.
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Across
- 1. Shortened form often used in clue indicators
- 3. Use of signs or letters to imply meaning
- 4. Placing letters inside others in a clue
- 5. A word with similar meaning used as a hint
- 6. Word or phrase that reads the same forwards and backwards
- 8. Word signaling the type of wordplay
- 13. Answer concealed within the clue text
- 14. Wordplay where one word is placed entirely inside another
Down
- 2. Rearranging letters to form new words
- 7. Clue giving two valid meanings for the same answer
- 9. Clue formed by concatenating smaller word parts
- 10. Part of clue that provides the literal meaning
- 11. Clue where the first letters spell the answer
- 12. Clue involving words that sound alike
- 15. Technique involving writing a word backwards
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