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  • Crossword Bloggers' Jargon – Decoded!
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Cryptic Gymnastics

  • Elision, and questions of fairness
  • The significance of apostrophe-S
  • Reverse anagrams
  • How to interpret punctuation in clues
  • Ellipsis-linked clues...
  • Tricky Indicators
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  • Have no enemy but time
  • Do the math to solve these clues
  • Connectors: How much is too much?
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Books and Movies

  • Afrit's Armchair Crosswords
  • Tim Moorey's How To Master The Times Crossword
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  • Pretty Girl In Crimson Rose (8)
  • Unlikely Movie Characters as Potential Setters
  • Killer Clue
  • The Araucaria Counterweight Book Saver
  • Life in Black and White
  • The Daily Telegraph: 80 Years of Cryptic Crosswords
  • Garson Hampfield, Crossword Inker
  • Attn film-makers: Crossworders are not oddballs!
  • Chesterley's Cranium-Cracking Cryptic Crosswords

The Hindu Crossword

  • The Hindu Crossword Setter Interviews
  • Remembering Admiral Katari
  • Web App to Solve The Hindu Crossword Online
  • Q&A with Six New Hindu Crossword Setters
  • Quadruple Pangran in The Hindu Crossword
  • Clue Awards For Neyartha
  • Limericks for Nita Jaggi
  • Quiz: How Well Do You Know The Hindu Crossword?
  • Buzzer Trivia
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  • Cryptonyte's Special Crossword

Guest Posts

  • Useful Tools for Crossword Setters ~ Anax
  • Think of a Letter ~ Anax
  • Camouflaging Anagrams ~ Tony Chesterley
  • Verbal Anagrammar ~ Tony Chesterley
  • Make Your Own Crossword Grid ~ Chaturvasi
  • Numbering the Clue Slots ~ Chaturvasi
  • How to Put Words in a Crossword Grid ~ Chaturvasi
  • So the slips might not show... ~ Chaturvasi
  • Alphabet Jigsaw Puzzles ~ Bhavan
  • Kannada Crosswords ~ Kishore
  • Konkani Crosswords ~ Kishore
  • How Kishore solved a Tenglish crossword ~ Kishore
  • Clueing Really Long Solutions ~ Gordon Holt
  • The Silicon Valley Puzzle Day 2009 ~ Ganesh

Miscellaneous

  • Why Hindi and Cryptic Crosswords do not Mix
  • Can a Computer Program Write Cryptic Clues?
  • Fascinating Facts about Setters' Pseudonyms
  • What is a Nina?
  • Economic Times Crossword Online
  • NYT Election Day Crossword
  • The Difference b/w Seth Godin & a Crossworder
  • Do You Make These Mistakes When Writing Clues?
  • The "No Living Persons" Rule
  • 3-Dimensional Crosswords
  • Failures in Solving Crosswords: A Statistical Study

Crossword Sites

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Puzzles Online

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