A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where...
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Many variants of crosswords are popular around the world, including cryptic crosswords and many language-specific variants. Crossword construction in modern...
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Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon (category Crossword creators)
Puzzler", a monthly cryptic crossword in The Atlantic magazine, from September 1977 to October 2009, and wrote cryptic crosswords every four weeks for...
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Cryptic crosswords often use abbreviations to clue individual letters or short fragments of the overall solution. These include: Any conventional abbreviations...
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entertainment: Cryptic crossword, a type of word puzzle, known colloquially as Cryptics Cryptic Studios, video game developer Cryptics, characters from...
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John Halpern (category Crossword creators)
John Halpern (born Cuckfield, Sussex, 21 June 1967) is a cryptic crossword compiler for newspapers including The Guardian (as Paul), The Independent (as...
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Cracking the Cryptic (CTC) is a YouTube channel dedicated to paper-and-pencil puzzles: primarily sudoku, but also cryptic crosswords and other types of...
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The Riddle of the Sphinx (Inside No. 9) (category Crosswords)
seeking answers to the Varsity cryptic crossword, Pemberton as Professor Nigel Squires, who pseudonymously sets the crossword using the name Sphinx, and Shearsmith...
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The New York Times crossword is a daily American-style crossword puzzle published in The New York Times, syndicated to more than 300 other newspapers...
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Lights (9): The Lives and Puzzles of the Telegraph's Six Greatest Cryptic Crossword Setters. Macmillan. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-230-71446-5. Rowley, Tom (27...
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