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Guide to cryptics Solving Cryptic Crosswords - Summary by roy At ?rst glance clues in a cryptic crossword seem to read as normal though unusual English sentences and phrases This surface meaning is sometimes played for comic e ?ect but it is actually irre

Solving Cryptic Crosswords - Summary by roy At ?rst glance clues in a cryptic crossword seem to read as normal though unusual English sentences and phrases This surface meaning is sometimes played for comic e ?ect but it is actually irrelevant for the purposes of solving Instead each clue is a puzzle in its own right which consists of two parts split somewhere in the middle to be determined by the solver In most clues one part of the clue is the straight part or the de ?nition of the answer while the other part is the cryptic part which explains how to derive the answer The two exceptions to this rule are Double De ?nition and lit clues see below Cryptic clues can be considered more complete than standard American-style crossword puzzle clues because they are in essence self- con ?rming ?? once the solver gets the answer they can be reasonably con ?dent that they are correct They are only ambiguous up until the point they are cracked So although cryptic crosswords present a greater challenge many solvers also consider them more satisfying to solve The self- con ?rming nature of the clues also means that cryptic crosswords become too easy when too many letters are known For this reason unlike American- style crosswords cryptic crosswords almost always have unchecked letters that is letters which only appear in one entry To be fair to solvers entries in cryptic crosswords almost always have ??dictionary nature ? which eliminates phrases and partials Finally many if not most advanced and ??variety ? cryptics have additional tricks added to make them even harder to solve Every part of a cryptic clue is a potential for wordplay including everything used in American-style crosswords and then some The word ??mad ? for example could mean anagramming is required the letters ??mad ? are part of the answer word or some but not all of those letters are in the answer word depending on how it is modi ?ed ??initially mad ? means M while ??mad heart ? means A or that ??mad ? is the de ?nition or part of the de ?nition of the answer word Here are the eight most common types of wordplay along with hints on how to spot them Anagrams scramble the letters of the word into another word Charades as in the at type or the game of this name have an answer that is broken down into two or more words that appear in succession for example consummate is made up of con sum and mate Containers place one word within the letters of another word in courthouse for instance thou is contained within course Reversals reverse the letters of a word into another word Homophones sound the same but are spelled di ?erently like through and threw or bizarre and bazaar Deletions are formed by deleting a letter or group of letters from another word Double De ?nitions provide a second de ?nition of the answer