3/21/2024 0 Comments Dent or crack crossword clue![]() And the great thing about cryptics is that the teacher doesn’t have to be an expert, just someone who’s been doing it for longer than you have. Like most skills in life, you need a teacher. So how do I start to do cryptic crosswords? So in a cryptic clue there are usually two ways of arriving at the answer, not just one. So now we know that all of our conjectures were plausible, but wrong – we see that TERN is “settled in ” “afTER Noon”. We need to eliminate the many possibilities, so let’s try the Cryptic: “Bird settled in after noon (4)”. Easy – WREN! But hang on, it could be LARK. OK, here’s an example of a “Quick” clue: “Bird (4)”. ![]() Let’s check I’ve got the terminology right – What’s quick and what’s cryptic? He is the editor of i’s The Inquisitor Crossword. He won The Times Crossword Championship in 1996 and also holds the Championship record for the fastest solve of a Times puzzle (under 3 minutes). John Henderson has been setting crosswords for the national press since 1979, and has been a solver for a few years longer. Following a reader’s plea for help, cryptic crossword setter John Henderson explains how to crack the code
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