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How to make a cryptic clue: (credits: this link) _ĭeusovi ♦ wrote: What is a cryptic clue? A cryptic crossword clue is a phrase that leads to a single answer word through specific rules. Because a typical cryptic clue describes its answer in detail and often more than once, the solver can usually have a great deal of confidence in the answer once it has been determined. There are many sorts of wordplay, such as anagrams and double definitions. Sometimes the two parts are joined with a link word or phrase such as “from”, “gives” or “could be”. This wordplay gives the solver some instructions on how to get to the answer another way. One of the tasks of the solver is to find the boundary between definition and wordplay and insert a mental pause there when reading the clue cryptically. The other part (the subsidiary indication, or wordplay) provides an alternative route to the answer (this part would be a second definition in the case of double definition clues). It usually appears at the start or the end of a clue. The definition, which usually exactly matches the part of speech, tense, and number of the answer, is in essence the same as any ‘straight’ crossword clue, a synonym for the answer. It provides two ways of getting to the answer. A typical clue consists of two parts, the definition and the wordplay. The challenge is to find the way of reading the clue that leads to the solution. What the clue appears to say when read normally (the surface reading) is a distraction and usually has nothing to do with the clue answer. What is a cryptic clue ? In essence, a cryptic clue leads to its answer as long as it is read in the right way.
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