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.
Type a word, paste a clue, or paste a result fragment
Look up
Single token → forward + reverse lookup. Multi-word → indicator-phrase scan.
Browse the full corpus
Abbreviations
Synonyms
Indicators
Subtype:
— any —
container
anagram
reversal
hidden_word
deletion
letter_selection
Sort:
most used
word A-Z
newest first
Publication:
— any —
georgeho
trainer