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Puzzle & Brain Games: Cryptic Crossword’s Deletion Clue Unpacking

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 Nick
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Cryptic crosswords use deletion clues (e.g., “remove first letter of A = B”)—what’s the trickiest deletion you unpacked (hidden “remove” indicators, or multi-letter deletions), and how did you identify which letters to cut? Did you ever laugh at how a small deletion transformed a word, and what’s the most clever deletion-solve moment you had?


 
Posted : September 21, 2025 7:43 pm