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How to Do Cryptic Crosswords – Free e-book
Barbara Gettinby, author of Cryptic Crossword Secrets: Where Every Answer is Fully Explained has put together a free e-book to help you learn how to do cryptic crosswords. From double-leadings to back-flips, omissions to jumbled letters, cryptic crosswords use all manner of tricks to trip you up, but with Barbara’s help you will be on your way to deciphering cryptic clues in no time.
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Cryptics Uncrossed
Double dealings, hide and seek, back flips….sounds like a day in the Australian parliament but instead these are just a few of the cryptic crossword techniques revealed in a ‘how to’ hands-on book. Cryptic Crossword Secrets shows readers all the tricks and tips for mastering cryptic crosswords.
The first pages of the book are filled with examples of the ruses used by cryptic crossword compilers. These include similar sounding words, words that appear in reverse, abbreviations and some much-used devilish and dastardly decoys.
