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Cryptics queen> At a cliffhanger of a finale on November 30, Patna's Adya Singh lifted the National Crossword Trophy, beating out 37 school teams with her stellar solo performance.

Over the years, Spoonerisms have found their way into cryptic crossword clues, where they have a somewhat polarising effect

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Some hoarded toilet paper and non-perishables in the pandemic, but my storm cellar was packed with five volumes of cryptic crosswords.

Some hoarded toilet paper and non-perishables in the pandemic, but my storm cellar was packed with five volumes of cryptic crosswords.

Some hoarded toilet paper and non-perishables in the pandemic, but my storm cellar was packed with five volumes of cryptic crosswords.

Clued In #246 | Cryptics show we can love the highs and the lows Mihir Balantrapu  |  17 February 2021 Hey there, and welcome back to Clued In! Once in a while, it’s important to try something simple. Like this clue! It’s all very well to be dynamically ambitious and inspired out of your socks all the time. But like a sine curve, the most natural and organic of waves in this stringy universe of ours, everything has — nay, needs — its rises and falls. You can’t live in the high zone ...

Clued In #218 | Cryptic crosswords, so solution-oriented! Mihir Balantrapu  |  11 January 2021 Hey there, and welcome back to Clued In!   Clue types: GK, entertainment Clue explained: One of the famous cute plump bearlike alien creatures all of us ’90s kids grew up watching and loving on television was PO, the tiniest of the Teletubbies. Everyman seems to have mispelled this as ‘Tellytubby’. ‘Everyman’ would refer to himself\herself as ME. Another word for ‘executed’, as in man...

Get your UCT Summer School on: Learn the language of cryptic crosswords 24 December 2020 10:10 AM Share This: Jonathan Ancer is presenting a fascinating Summer School course called Cryptic Crosswords, Conspiracies, Clues, and Compilers. Cryptic crosswords offer a complete mental workout and are believed to delay the onset of cognitive decline. However, people avoid them because cryptic clues seem too difficult to solve. They aren’t – you just need to learn the language. Jonathan Ancer...