Deletion Indicators in Cryptic Crosswords Expulsion, Departure and Reduction. Expulsion and departure indicators direct the solver to remove one piece of text ...

First letter · beheaded · decapitated · don't start · failing to start · headless · headlessly · heading off · leaderless ...

10 апр. 2009 г. · Subtract letters from both edges of a word: e.g. AUTOPSY - {AU,SY} = TOP. Subtract letters from the middle of a word: STROP – R = STOP. ...

22 мар. 2009 г. · Deletions · Delete both ends: Letters are removed from both edges of a word. This uses indicators like: losing margins, trimmed, without limits.

List of general deletion indicators · abandoning · absent · cut · disappearing · dismissed · dropped · excluded · excluding ...

26 апр. 2016 г. · Deletion indicators: These are words that tell you to delete some letters from a word. They give a sense of removal such as absent ...

7 февр. 2013 г. · Deletion & Position Indicators · abandon · absent · almost · blow off · cut short (delete last letter) · decapitated (delete first letter) · dismiss ...

First letter deletion: not starting, first off, left off (across clues only), topping off (down clues only) · Middle letter deletion: empty, gutless · Last letter ...

AFTER COMMENCEMENT · BEGINNING TO GO · BEHEADED · BEHEADING · DECAPITATED ; ABRIDGED · ALMOST · BACK OFF · CLIPPED · CURTAILED ; EDGES AWAY · LACKING WINGS

7 Dropped / Deleted Letter(s) Indicators: E evens out, N not even, nothing odd, O oddly lacking, R regular losses, S seconds out, W without.