4 сент. 2024 г. · This list contains the coded expressions used to select letters from a word or words in cryptic clues (eg 'a little crossword' = C).

This is an incomplete list of letter selection indicators. Most of these are either used possessively, postpositively or in two-word compounds.

22 мар. 2006 г. · Letter 'A' indicators: absolute temperature, about, absent, Academician, Academy, acceleration, accepted, ace, acre(s), acreage, across, acting, active, ...

4 сент. 2024 г. · The great majority of ways to indicate a single letter in a cryptic wordplay can be found in one of these three lists.

The article below examines the various techniques for indicating initial and final letters and looks at the relative merits of each.

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

This list is a reformatted and slightly updated version of one compiled by Ross Beresford and posted to rec.puzzles.crosswords in 1992.

Anagram indicators are a very important indicator in cryptic clues. They indicate that the order of the letters should be changed.

14 апр. 2009 г. · A compilation of indicators for letter selection clues. This covers the following clue types: Initialisms or acrostics – the first letters ...

26 апр. 2016 г. · They are words that give a sense of reversal (not surprisingly!) such as around, backslide, brought about, come back, flipped over, going west, ...