An avid fan of games, in 1968 and 1969 Sondheim published a series of cryptic crossword puzzles in New York magazine.

The meaning is " bigotry ", and the wordplay explains itself, indicated subtly by the word " take " ( since one word " takes " another ): " aside " means APART and I'd is simply ID, so APART and ID " take " HE ( which is, in cryptic crossword usage, a perfectly good synonym for " him ").

Cryptic crossword puzzles come in two main types: the basic cryptic in which each clue answer is entered into the diagram normally, and the advanced or " variety " cryptic, in which some or all of the answers must be altered before entering, usually in accordance with a hidden pattern or rule which must be discovered by the solver.

There are many " code words " or " indicators " that have a special meaning in the cryptic crossword context.

Learning these, or being able to spot them, is a useful and necessary part of becoming a skilled cryptic crossword solver.

A typical cryptic crossword grid is generally 15x15, with half-turn rotational symmetry.

A July 2006 " Puzzlecraft " section in Games magazine on cryptic crossword construction noted that for cryptic crosswords to be readily solvable, no fewer than half the letters for every word should be checked by another word for a standard cryptic crossword, while nearly every letter should be checked for a variety cryptic crossword.

The German Zeitmagazin has a weekly cryptic crossword called Um die Ecke gedacht.

Most cryptic crosswords provide the number of letters in the answer, or in the case of phrases, a series of numbers to denote the letters in each word: " cryptic crossword " would be clued with "( 7, 9 )" following the clue.

would give the answer ; in the cryptic sense, spoil works as an anagram indicator for vote, while the whole clue is, with a certain amount of licence allowed to crossword setters, a definition.

A cryptic crossword on the back page of the Manchester Evening News on Thursday 20 October 2011 included the answer, whose clue was " Found a woozy bliss following electric shock treatment ( 9 )"; part of the clue is initialisms, but " woozy bliss " means "' bliss ' in a drunken voice ", i. e. " blish ".

It must have been with some pleasure and relief that on September 12, 1848, Joseph Brown made the momentous entry in his job book, in his characteristically cryptic style, `` Lucian Sharpe came to work for me this day as an apprentice ''.

Each commercial showed a slightly different perspective on the events, and each ended with a cryptic weblink.

Pseudo-Apollodorus moreover clarifies a cryptic statement ( 1026 – 29 ) made by Hermes in Prometheus Bound, identifying the centaur Chiron as the one who would take on Prometheus ' suffering and die in his place.

The work contains some remarks on the relationship of logic to religion, but they are slight and cryptic.

However, the cryptic nature of the problems that led to the decision to abort Mariner 1, as well as the confusion in various reports on the incident, gave rise to an urban legend of sorts.

In the wet-season, these brown butterflies cannot as easily rely on cryptic coloration for protection because the background vegetation is green.

Many forest antelope rely on cryptic coloring and good hearing to avoid predators.

One of the longest inscriptions is that on the 8th century Eggjum stone, containing cryptic religious or magical allusions.

Various cryptic puzzles could be found on the website, and solving these would lead to new pieces of media and art.

Torquemada's successor at The Observer was Ximenes ( Derrick Somerset Macnutt, 1902 – 1971 ), and in his influential work, Ximenes on the Art of the Crossword Puzzle ( 1966 ), he set out more detailed guidelines for setting fair cryptic clues, now known as " Ximenean principles " and sometimes described by the word " square-dealing ".

Comments from some solvers on these puzzles don't always agree with this assessment, rating maybe half of them as close to average broadsheet cryptic difficulty.

Once a year on Canada Day, The Globe publishes a large 24 × 24 bar-diagram cryptic.

Instead, disease results from the exposure of cryptic N-glycan ( polysaccharide ) linkages common to lower eukaryotes and prokaryotes on the glycoproteins of mammalian non-hematopoietic cells and organs This exposure of phylogenically primitive glycans activates one or more mammalian innate immune cell receptors to induce a chronic sterile inflammatory state.

The April Fools ' Day 1998 issue of Nintendo Power claimed that the cryptic phrase would be discussed on the non-existent page 128, and also featured a facetious article titled " Luigi 64 ", commenting humorously on the rumor.

In the film Waterworld, an extremely vague and cryptic treasure map has been tattooed on the back of the child character Enola.

Rímur can be traced back to the Viking Age Eddic poetry of the skalds and employs complex metaphors and cryptic rhymes and forms.

" Since that time, the site has been back and forth, sometimes being replaced with the cryptic message, " So, web huh.

For newcomers to cryptic puzzles the Daily Telegraph is often regarded as an ideal starting point, but this is contentious.

There is an advanced cryptic called Enigmatic Variations in the Sunday Telegraph, and also a 15 × 15 blocked-grid puzzle.

They did maintain a voluminous correspondence ; for a time he wrote her cryptic letters every Wednesday.

He gave his paintings enigmatic titles — such as The Nostalgia of the Infinite ( 1913 – 14 ), The Philosopher ’ s Conquest ( 1914 ), and The Soothsayer ’ s Recompense ( 1913 ) — that contribute to their cryptic effect.

: The Atlantic magazine had a long-running cryptic crossword, known as the Puzzler, created by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon beginning in 1977, available only online since March 2006.

In March 2011, the remodeled queue area was revealed, with new tombstones honoring Imagineers ; a " murder mystery " for guests to solve involving the sinister Dread family ; the Composer's tomb, which features musical instruments that play " Grim Grinning Ghosts " when touched ; the Mariner's brine-filled sepulcher, whose ghost sings and sneezes from within ; a crypt for the poetess Prudence Pock, which features a cryptic message written on the sides of the tomb on moving, haunted books, and Prudence's ghost writing invisibly in her poem book.

In March 2012, it was announced that DNA testing had confirmed a new species of leopard frog had been found whose habitat was centered near New York's Yankee Stadium and included northern New Jersey, southeastern mainland New York, and Staten Island ; the new still unnamed species is part of a cryptic species complex that was first distinguished by its short, repetitive croak, distinct from the " long snore " or " rapid chuckle " of other area leopard frog species.

: For some of the time that this magazine was edited by Tina Brown ( 1997 – 1999 ), it included a small ( 8 × 10 ) barred-grid cryptic crossword, set by a range of American and Canadian setters.

Models ' early style was a spiky, distinctive blend of New Wave, glam rock, dub and pop: which included Kelly's strangled singing voice, Duffield's virtuoso synthesiser performances ( he used the EMS Synthi AKS, as used by Pere Ubu on their Dub Housing ), and the band's cryptic, slightly gruesome, lyrics ( e. g. " Hans Stand: A War Record " from Alphabravocharliedeltaechofoxtrotgolf ), which were mostly written or co-written by Kelly.

Through this, he learned that Suleiman was still receiving letters from Rahma, whose correspondence always included the cryptic phrase " Take care of Abdoul Razoul ".

In addition, the tale is illustrated with drawings, photographs, and collages, some of which relate to the text, some of which look like illustrations from a social-studies book on African-American history, and some of which seem to be included as a cryptic protest against the Vietnam War.

Commercial products included UNIFORM, a non-destructive reformat for hard drives, CSR, which allowed service shops to archive CMOS settings from computers they serviced and restore them when necessary, and Rx, a small TSR, ( Terminate & Stay Resident ), program which gave plain English explanations to accompany the often cryptic " Abort, Retry or Ignore?

" Note that in a cryptic clue, there is almost always only one answer that fits both the definition and the wordplay, so that when you see the answer, you know it is the right answer-although it can sometimes be a challenge to figure out why it is the right answer.

A good cryptic clue should provide a fair and exact definition of the answer, while at the same time being deliberately misleading.

With the different types of wordplay and definition possibilities, the composer of a cryptic puzzle is presented with many different possible ways to clue a given answer.

In principle, each cryptic clue is usually sufficient to define its answer uniquely, so it should be possible to answer each clue without use of the grid.

In essence, a cryptic clue leads to its answer as long as it is read in the right way.

Because a typical cryptic clue describes its answer in detail and often more than once, the solver can usually have a great deal of confidence in the answer once it has been determined.

Officially, the gods might speak through the cryptic writings and utterances of specialised oracles, or through a complex system of signs in answer to the specific questions of State augurs.

The answer was, true to the Vorlon's cryptic speak patterns, " Yes.

Zoom does not answer him directly, giving a cryptic response and eventually escaping as Captain Boomerang is confronted by the rest of the Rogues.

The host then asked cryptic crossword-type clues to which the answer was a new word, with only one letter difference from the previous answer.