Cryptic Conventions

Look up the cryptic-crossword conventions behind any word, or paste a clue and see which words act as wordplay indicators. Every clue we solve teaches the page new conventions.

Data seeded from © George Ho et al., licensed under the Open Database License v1.0. Originally compiled at cryptics.georgeho.org. Imported entries observed fewer than 6 times in the source data have been removed to reduce noise. Cryptic Trainer-derived rows are added when each clue is solved.

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Single token → forward + reverse lookup. Multi-word → indicator-phrase scan.

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