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2. D-Day Daily Telegraph crossword security alarm - Wikipedia

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   On 18 August 1942, a day before the Dieppe raid, 'Dieppe' appeared as an answer in The Daily Telegraph crossword (set on 17 August 1942) (clued "French port"), causing a security alarm. The War Office suspected that the crossword had been used to pass intelligence to the enemy and called upon Lord Tweedsmuir, then a senior intelligence officer ...

3. Cryptic crossword - Wikipedia

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   A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.

4. John Halpern - Wikipedia

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   All the time John was looking to get more crosswords published, across more UK national newspapers, the plan being to write cryptic crosswords full-time. Full-time cryptic crossword setter. In the years since 1995, Halpern has compiled crosswords for the Financial Times as Mudd, the Times (anonymous), the Telegraph as Dada and the Independent ...

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7. Crossword - Wikipedia

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   Cryptic crossword clues consist typically of a definition and some type of word play. Cryptic crossword clues need to be viewed two ways. One is a surface reading and one a hidden meaning. The surface reading is the basic reading of the clue to look for key words and how those words are constructed in the clue. The second way is the hidden meaning.

8. The New York Times Crossword - Wikipedia

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   Android. Release. February 15, 1942; 82 years ago. ( 1942-02-15) Genre (s) Word game. Mode (s) Single-player. The New York Times Crossword (marketed as The Crossword) is a daily American-style crossword puzzle published in The New York Times as part of The New York Times Games, online on the newspaper's website, syndicated to more than 300 ...

9. Printer's Devilry - Wikipedia

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   Printer's Devilry. A Printer's Devilry is a form of cryptic crossword puzzle, first invented by Afrit ( Alistair Ferguson Ritchie) in 1937. A Printer's Devilry puzzle does not follow the standard Ximenean rules of crossword setting, since the clues do not define the answers. [1] Instead, each clue consists of a sentence from which a string of ...