The philosophy of Heraclitus is summed up in his cryptic utterance:

" He was not forthcoming with anything more than cryptic clues, however: " Peter Woodthrope played Estragon remembered asking him one day in a taxi what the play was really about: ' It's all symbiosis, Peter ; it's symbiosis ,' answered Beckett.

She prophesies that things are not all as they seem and that " a change " is in store for him, but he does not understand her cryptic warning.

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.

None of the major daily cryptics in the UK is " strictly Ximenean "; all allow clues which are just cryptic definitions, and strict Ximenean rules exclude such clues.

Behind the veil of all the hieratic and mystical allegories of ancient doctrines, behind the darkness and strange ordeals of all initiations, under the seal of all sacred writings, in the ruins of Nineveh or Thebes, on the crumbling stones of old temples and on the blackened visage of the Assyrian or Egyptian sphinx, in the monstrous or marvelous paintings which interpret to the faithful of India the inspired pages of the Vedas, in the cryptic emblems of our old books on alchemy, in the ceremonies practised at reception by all secret societies, there are found indications of a doctrine which is everywhere the same and everywhere carefully concealed.

Consisting of cryptic texts and drawings ( mostly ) by Johnson, they were mailed a few at a time, randomly, and offered for sale via a classified ad in the Village Voice., thus very few people ever received all the pages.

These species are unified morphologically in exhibiting sexual dimorphism in their plumage, as well as in possessing cryptic juvenile plumage ( in all the species thus far studied ).

: Within a compass of two hundred pages it proclaims unequivocally the existence and oneness of a personal God, unknowable, inaccessible, the source of all Revelation, eternal, omniscient, omnipresent and almighty ; asserts the relativity of religious truth and the continuity of Divine Revelation ; affirms the unity of the Prophets, the universality of their Message, the identity of their fundamental teachings, the sanctity of their scriptures, and the twofold character of their stations ; denounces the blindness and perversity of the divines and doctors of every age ; cites and elucidates the allegorical passages of the New Testament, the abstruse verses of the Qur ' án, and the cryptic Muhammadan traditions which have bred those age-long misunderstandings, doubts and animosities that have sundered and kept apart the followers of the world's leading religious systems ; enumerates the essential prerequisites for the attainment by every true seeker of the object of his quest ; demonstrates the validity, the sublimity and significance of the Báb's Revelation ; acclaims the heroism and detachment of His disciples ; foreshadows, and prophesies the world-wide triumph of the Revelation promised to the people of the Bayán ; upholds the purity and innocence of the Virgin Mary ; glorifies the Imams of the Faith of Muhammad ; celebrates the martyrdom, and lauds the spiritual sovereignty, of the Imam Husayn ; unfolds the meaning of such symbolic terms as " Return ," " Resurrection ," " Seal of the Prophets " and " Day of Judgment "; adumbrates and distinguishes between the three stages of Divine Revelation ; and expatiates, in glowing terms, upon the glories and wonders of the " City of God ," renewed, at fixed intervals, by the dispensation of Providence, for the guidance, the benefit and salvation of all mankind.

While the critical status of Cardiacs is wildly mixed ( the band tends to attract extreme responses with some critics hailing them while others violently condemn them to the point of pariahhood ), Cardiacs are renowned for their unique performing and songwriting styles and their poetically cryptic, philosophical and abstract lyrics, as well as for their ability to produce a unique, complex and innovative sound with all their musical ventures over and over again throughout their long career.

The gray mouse lemur and all other mouse lemurs are considered cryptic species, as they are nearly indistinguishable from each other by appearance.

The mothers believe that the daughters will intuitively understand their cryptic utterances, but the daughters don't understand them at all.

Morphologically, they are all similar, with a very long slender bill and cryptic plumage.

The society's tradition was supposedly disseminated in cryptic form, and its membership has been postulated ( successively increasing in both breadth and antiquity by each re-telling ) to include all the usual conspiracy theory favourites ; Leonardo da Vinci, Robbie Brouillard, Alexandre Dumas, père, Guercino, Nicolas Poussin, Dante Alighieri, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jules Verne et al.

Not all endophytes present can be cultured in this way because amplification ground up plant tissue using fungal or bacterial specific primers has revealed the existence cryptic species.

Orion passes on several cryptic phrases to Turpin, telling him that " He is in you all!

A phantom merle or cryptic merle is one with such small patches of merle — or none at all — that it appears to be a non-merle.

* The Jokers in Terry Pratchett's The Dark Side of the Sun ( 1976 ), who predate all the sentient species in the novel, leaving behind artefacts and a cryptic poem.

" Perhaps the most cryptic song is the opener " My Evil Plan to Save the World ", which according to Reese Roper is about " all of us that have ever thought that our own small minds could come up with a plan greater and more perfect than God's.

Basing his work on the strange legend that Ts ' ui Pên had intended to construct an infinite labyrinth, as well as a cryptic letter from Ts ' ui Pên himself stating, " I leave to several futures ( not to all ) my garden of forking paths ".

Although any Unicode character can be referenced by its numeric code point, some HTML document authors prefer to use these named entities instead, where possible, as they are less cryptic and were better supported by early browsers.

Only rare cryptic bits of information are ever provided during the life of the series, such as in the third season mission " Nicole ", where the IMF leader states that his instructions come from " Division Seven ".

" Throughout the game the player is given cryptic messages that come from the Logos.

Homer receives a cryptic message in the newspaper informing him to come to a certain place at midnight, and soon discovers that the person who wrote the message is his mother, Mona Simpson.

This is mainly due to her habit of always carrying a small log in her arms, with which she seems to share a psychic connection, often dispensing advice and visions of clairvoyance which she claims come from the log ; prior to the murder, she delivers moving and cryptic warnings to Laura Palmer herself.

Because of the seemingly highly symbolic and even cryptic language of this one New Testament passage, some Christian scholars conclude that Mount Armageddon must be an idealized location.

The color of the fur or plumage changes to white ( in order to be confused with snow ) and thus retains its cryptic coloration year-round.

The mentions in the Tanakh tend to be historical or prophetic, while New Testament references are more likely figurative, or cryptic references possibly to pagan Rome, or some other archetype.

The dry-season forms are usually more cryptic and it has been suggested that the protection offered may be an adaptation.

For instance, the items in the couples list are seen once with their natural partner ( in which case Perec gives an explicit reference ), and once with every other element ( where he is free to be cryptic ).

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

" Lewis adds, " As cosmopolitan an artist as he would later become, his storehouse of visual imagery would never expand beyond the landscape of his childhood, with its snowy streets, wooden houses, and ubiquitous fiddlers ... scenes of childhood so indelibly in one's mind and to invest them with an emotional charge so intense that it could only be discharged obliquely through an obsessive repetition of the same cryptic symbols and ideograms ... "

" 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.

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.

Sometimes newspapers publish one grid that can be filled by solving either of two lists of clues-usually a straight and a cryptic.

The solutions given by the two lists may be different, in which case the solver must decide at the outset which list they are going to follow, or the solutions may be identical, in which case the straight clues offer additional help for a solver having difficulty with the cryptic clues.

For example, the solution APARTHEID might be clued as " Bigotry aside, I'd take him ( 9 )" in the cryptic list, and " Racial separation ( 9 )" in the straight list.

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.

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.

The subject matter of gang related graffiti consists of cryptic symbols and initials strictly fashioned with unique calligraphies.

The first part of the film begins with a narrator called The Scientist ( Bela Lugosi ) making cryptic comments about humanity.

The NME reported that Alan ' Reni ' Wren had responded to these rumours, contacting them with a cryptic message that read: " Not before 9T will I wear the hat 4 the Roses again ".

All command names and parameter keywords are based upon uniform standardized and mostly 3-letter abbreviations for verbs and subjects, making for easy rendering and interpretation by the application developer, as opposed to other operating systems with often cryptic or inconsistent command names for related functions or command parameter switches.

The book's cryptic acknowledgement credits friend and fellow science fiction author Ken MacLeod with the suggestion " to argue the old warrior out of retirement " ( to rewrite the old book ) and further credits him with suggesting " the fitness programme " ( the new structure ).

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.

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

Variety ( UK: " advanced ") cryptic crosswords typically use a " barred grid " with no black squares and a slightly smaller size ; 12 × 12 is typical.

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.

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.