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But the clue's unsound: "back" is doing double duty, both indicating that you need to read sdrawkcab and being part of what you need to do that to. I don't know how well this actually works, though.ĪBOLISH is hidden backwards inside the clue: "wit h silo, back".

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There's an old Windows app, which I think is no longer available (it might be possible to find copies by more or less shady means I haven't checked in any case you might have various sorts of misgivings about that), but he's also got an iPhone version in or near beta test.

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There's a piece of software I've never used called Crossword Genius by a guy called William Tunstall-Pedoe, which attempts to solve cryptic clues and, when it succeeds, can explain how they work. I can't guarantee instant answers (or indeed any) but there are several regular denizens there who are pretty good with cryptics. In individual cases, you could ask in The Sphinx's Lair, the PSE chat room. (Of course, anything that helps you get better at solving cryptics will go some way towards solving your problem, by making you need explanations less often.)

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The ones I have on my shelves are Ximenes on the art of the crossword, the Chambers crossword manual, How to do the Times crossword, and Improve your game: 50 crossword puzzles of these, only the second (Chambers) has explanations for the answers to its sample crosswords.

There are some books about how to solve cryptic crosswords, and at least some of these include sample crosswords with explanations. the Guardian and the Independent, though the UI for the latter's crosswords is rather horrible.) They don't post the puzzles but you can get those (1) by buying the papers and (2) in many cases from the papers' websites. The fifteensquared blog posts solutions, with explanations, to crosswords in various British papers. Is anyone on here familiar with such a thing? I've searched a bit online but haven't been able to find anything like this. What would be really helpful to me is some source of cryptic crosswords where the solutions come with some kind of explanation of how the clue should be interpreted. But this is not always reliable - I have no idea what to search for to answer my questions about ABOLISH. Sometimes I can solve things like this by Googling: when I search 'cryptic AC current', say, it tells me that 'current' can clue 'AC' as in 'Alternating Current'. Similarly I can see that TRESS is clued by 'Hair', but I have no idea where the 'AC' is coming from. I can see that OLIS is clued by 'silo, back', but I have no idea where the surrounding 'ABH' is coming from. She might have a part in current Hair production (7)Īnd even once crossing letters and guesswork have let me solve the first as ABOLISH and the second as ACTRESS, I'm not sure how the wordplay parts fit together. Even once I see answers, it's not always clear to me why they are the answers/how they were clued. I've recently gotten into cryptic crosswords. : ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this question, but I'm not sure where else I might be able to get an answer.

Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, n7 p14-29 1996.

ERIC Note: For complete volume, see FL 023 856.

(Contains 14 references.) (Author/NAV) Notes: An appendix offers sample clues with solutions. Cryptics involve the solver's whole semantic and syntactic competence in the resolution of ambiguity. The cryptics do employ more non-prototypical sense of target words and make much use of lexical and syntactic ambiguity in their clue writing to create a "misleading context" that leads the solver "up the garden path." It is argued that cryptic clues provide interesting material to investigate how persons process ambiguity and explore verbal play and humor. It was found that the cryptics, on the whole, do not use more difficult vocabulary than the quicks and that both types of crosswords indicate the senses and denotations of the target words in broadly similar ways.

Cryptic crosswords represent creative employment of linguistic resources within specific conventions to produce a particular form of language as entertainment. Taking a research question of "what makes a cryptic clue more difficult to solve than a simple crossword clue," it compares a sample of cryptic and quick crosswords from "The Guardian" and attempts to isolate the linguistic factors that make the cryptic crosswords more difficult to complete. This paper investigates the intentional creation of ambiguity by composers of cryptic crossword puzzles. : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1996.