The Times How to Crack Cryptic Crosswords

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Tim Moorey. The Times How to Crack Cryptic Crosswords

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Dedication

To my dear Pam, partner for over 50 years without whose…

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In many crossword circles this is also known as & lit. However, I have found my workshop participants usually consider this too cryptic a name! It actually means “and is literally so” but people tend to puzzle over that at the expense of understanding the concept.

In fact, it is a simple one that I prefer to call all-in-one, which is what it is: the definition and wordplay are combined into one, often shortish sentence which, when decoded, leads to a description of the solution.

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