The Telegraph Cryptic Crosswords 1 (The Telegraph Puzzle Books)
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The Telegraph Cryptic Crosswords 1 (The Telegraph Puzzle Books)
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DRONE: One of the many two-letter abbreviations of doctor is followed by a word for working, or in operation, and finally the common letter for energy TAVERNA: Another word for an inn with an A(rea). I spent too long trying to find a way to replace an S with an A in something, d’oh!
ALMA MATER: A synonym of change contains ( clothes) two copies of “in the morning” that have been reversed ( looking up, in a down clue) that anagrams, cryptic wordplays and British puns were added. Thus the crosswords became like the ones we know ROBUST: The reversal ( lifting, in a down clue) of the heraldic gold is followed by a sculpture of the top part of a person MINISKIRT: A type of car that, like the solution, was particularly popular in Britain in the 1960s precedes a synonym of bypass or circumvent is known for its high-quality reporting, especially in the area of politics. The Telegraph is aimed primarily atMOCHA: A contraction meaning a second or short interval of time is followed by an informal word for tea SORTS: A noun meaning drunk and the genealogical abbreviation for son containing ( swallowing) the last letter of BEER TAPE: The physics symbol for temperature is followed by the reversal ( rejected) of the fusion of an abbreviated vinyl record and the single letter for American ANDROMEDA: This constellation is a word meaning with followed by a European capital city and finally the usual American attorney.
SAFARI: The reversal ( turned around) of the fusion of the Roman one and the shortened first name of tennis player Nadal including his ‘S from the clue CONSTRUCT: A common word for a prisoner, plus a verb meaning stride or march that goes ‘around’ the letter for cold LOTS: A synonym of missing with the letter at the beginning of SALE moved to the end of the word ( delayed) On Dec. 21, 1913, in a Sunday edition of The New York World, the first-ever “word-cross” puzzle appeared. The first-ever cruciverbalist, or person skilled in the creation or solving of crossword puzzles, was a journalist named Arthur Wynne from Liverpool, who’d immigrated to the states. A few weeks after the first word puzzle of its kind appeared, a typesetting error changed the name “word-cross” to “cross-word,” and it’s been called a crossword puzzle since.ARSENIC: As is a chemical symbol. The element it represents is the I from the clue inserted into (must be among) an anagram (mobile) of CRANES. Sometimes it helps to have been a chemist! I love your approach, Zandio. You give new things a go which is, of course, risky because some people don’t like change but I love it. Braided last week was brilliant. Yes, some of your clues don’t read that smoothly or hit the mark but, as with all these things, the more you work at something the more polished the result.
NEGLECT: The abbreviation for new with vote or choose containing ( to secure) the first letter of ( leader of) GOVERNMENT
Solving Common Crossword Clues
podcasts and, of course, the crossword puzzles. The Telegraph Crosswords puzzle - for 80 years they have been printed FLASH IN THE PAN: An anagram ( bad) of HANNAH’S I FELT containing ( keeping) the musical abbreviation for quiet Master “crosswordese.” Learn some of the most commonly used crossword answers. See if you can fit any of the “crosswordiest” words, or words not found in everyday speech but often used in crosswords, in your puzzle.
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