26 апр. 2016 г. · Container indicators: These are words that give a sense of one thing being put around another thing, or one thing being put inside another thing ...

19 апр. 2012 г. · Even "describe" can mean to go around something, and "this without that" can mean that this is going around the outside of that. On the ...

10 мар. 2009 г. · To stand for IN or ON: ABOUT can mean "in" or "on" (when taken in sentences like "He is about the house", "He lost all he had about him").

... around c: cape c: caput c: carbon c: caught c: cedi c: cent c: centime c ... do: the same do: same do: act do: cheat do: cook do: ditto do: note do ...

See our reference table below for some of these – though there are many more, you can really only learn them all by doing lots of cryptic crosswords!

5 июл. 2012 г. · We're looking at clues where you discover a bunch of letters from the wordplay, then imagine them running backwards to get your answer.

Cryptic crosswords often use abbreviations to clue individual letters or short fragments of the overall solution.

... clue, lifting means reversing. punctuation – usually included to improve the ... around (eating) H (Hospital) to get BOILED HAM, a type of meat the ...

One part is a normal definition of the answer; the other is an additional hint using wordplay. Having two hints in each clue might seem a big giveaway to.

The most common cryptic clueing technique is to form the answer by rearranging the letters in a word or group of words as they appear in the clue-making.