Explore: Cryptic Crosswords

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

Many variants of crosswords are popular around the world, including cryptic crosswords and many language-specific variants. Crossword construction in modern

Puzzler", a monthly cryptic crossword in The Atlantic magazine, from September 1977 to October 2009, and wrote cryptic crosswords every four weeks for

Cracking the Cryptic (CTC) is a YouTube channel dedicated to paper-and-pencil puzzles: primarily sudoku, but also cryptic crosswords and other types of

Donald). He has also written a book on devising and solving crosswords, Chambers Crossword Manual (1986, 5th edition October 2014). He has appeared on

'in a manner of speaking', or 'slip of the tongue'. Uniquely, in cryptic crosswords the words used to create the Spoonerism might only be hinted at, not

music: Cryptic (album), by Edge of Sanity Cryptic, a Minnesota-based music group formed by Brownmark In games and entertainment: Cryptic crossword, a type

(22 September 2011). "Crossword blog: Meet the setter – Paul". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 July 2016. Guardian Cryptic Crosswords Setters Series, 2007,

its crosswords under the pseudonyms of their compilers, at which point Graham selected the name "Araucaria". Besides Araucaria's cryptic crosswords in

including diagramless crosswords, Puns and Anagrams, cryptics (a.k.a. "British-style crosswords"), Split Decisions, Spiral Crosswords, word games, and more