Cryptic crosswords for beginners
Cryptic crosswords for beginners: one thing on top of another
Crosswords meet Jenga in the latest instalment in our guide for the cryptic-curious
Cryptic crosswords: all on a plate – how often is the solution word in the clue itself?
Cryptic crosswords for beginners: trains and railways
Cryptic crosswords for beginners: hospitals
Continuing our series for those tempted or daunted by cryptics, we look at strings of letters associated with hospitals
Cryptic crosswords for beginners: money
Continuing our series for those tempted or daunted by cryptics, we look at cold hard cash
Cryptic crosswords for beginners: jobs
Continuing our series for those tempted or daunted by cryptics, we look at what a mention of certain jobs in a clue might mean
Crosswords for beginners: meet the letter O
We continue the second half of our interviews with letters of the alphabet about what they get up to in cryptic clues
Cryptic crosswords for beginners: replacing one thing with another
It’s a swap shop in our series for those tempted or daunted by cryptics
Cryptic crosswords for beginners – unpicking the dress codes
Continuing our series for those tempted or daunted by cryptics, we look at the times when clues are clothed
Cryptic crosswords for beginners: one to a hundred – when clues use the % sign
Continuing our series for those tempted or daunted by cryptics, we explore the appearance of this sign in clues
Cryptic crosswords for beginners: mind the gap – when clues get completely heartless
Continuing our series for those tempted or daunted by cryptics, we explore directions that ask us to remove middle letters
Cryptic crosswords for beginners: a little bit of politics
Continuing our series for those tempted or daunted by cryptics, we explore abbreviations from the corridors of power
Crosswords for beginners: Meet the Letter N
We enter the second half of our interviews with letters of the alphabet about what they get up to in cryptic clues
How to get your bearings in cryptic crosswords – points of the compass for beginners, part 2
Continuing our series for those tempted or daunted by the cryptic crossword: more tricks with north, south, east, west – and the rest …
Cryptic crosswords for beginners: examples of examples
Continuing our series for those tempted or daunted by cryptics, we explore giving the answer by listing a specimen
Cryptic crosswords for beginners: middle letters
Cryptic crosswords for beginners: boys and girls
Crosswords for beginners: from Inspector Morse to Barbara Windsor, it’s all Latin to me
Classical abbreviations are perfect for specifying particular letters in a clue – continuing our series for those tempted or daunted by cryptic crosswords
Cryptic crosswords for beginners: end points from Land’s End to verbal bottoms
Our series for those tempted or daunted by cryptics reveals what’s going on when you’re asked to use last letters
Crosswords for beginners: meet the letter M
We reach the halfway point in our interviews with letters of the alphabet about what they get up to in cryptic clues
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