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These full-size crosswords will usually be themeless, but we’ll run the occasional themed puzzle for special issues and events. We’ll no longer publish a cryptic crossword on Sundays ...

Cryptic crosswords look tricky, but there are conventions that can help newcomers. Most clues comprise a cryptic part and a straight definition (often a synonym of the answer). Consider the ...

Cryptic crosswords, which a UK audience might be more familiar with, are actually also quite easy for a machine, because they contain very set rules and pointers to things such as anagrams.

Give up? (7) It comes from the cryptic pen of Nuala Considine who, in a career that spanned seven decades, was credited with being the world’s most prolific setter of crosswords when she died ...