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Topic: Cryptic Crossword

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The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Favorite possession(s):Dictionary
Most admires:The Wiggles
Favorite website(s):New York Times,  Game Spot
Currently has on their coffee table:Washington Post,  Time magazine,  TV Guide
Favorite Card Game(s):Bridge
Favorite board game(s):Scrabble,  Trivial Pursuit,  Monopoly
Favorite activity(s):Taking IQ tests
Interest(s):Maths,  Origami
Favorite computer game(s):Myst,  Tetris,  Minesweeper
Favorite time of year:Thanksgiving,  Christmas
Membership(s):Mensa
 
 
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The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.


Luigi Pascioni,
Auto Mechanic

Made a presentation in Italian about English-language cryptic crosswords to the joint meeting of the 58th National Congress of Classical Puzzling and the 20th Convention of the Italian Rebus Association, in Verona, Italy, in June 1999: I cruciverba enigmistici.
This article (in Italian) consists of the explanations of cryptic crosswords I presented to the joint meeting of the 58th National Congress of Classical Puzzling (Flats), and the 20th Convention of the Italian Rebus Association, in Verona, Italy in June 1999.
Sarah Kennedy,
Fashion Model

Simple puzzles bedeviled me -- crosswords left me cross, cryptograms appeared cryptic, riddles waxed enigmatic, and brainteasers taunted me until I felt an urge to tell an adult.
Anita Ganesh,
Poet

I also enjoy spending my rare moments of spare time puzzling over cryptic ( Times and Guardian ) crosswords and making spirographs & other funky symbols.
Rob Verdann,
Afterdark Removalist

In particular, it's intended for setters and solvers of advanced cryptic crosswords in the UK; for example, the Listener Crossword and the barred puzzles in the Sunday broadsheets.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

Some of these have been reprinted in Random House Cryptic Crosswords , Volumes 1 and 2 (1994, 1995)
Keiko Miyisawa,
Receptionist

We also have cryptic crosswords.
Special to The Globe and Mail Cryptic crosswords are the wordplay-packed relatives of regular crosswords.
ClueMaster Hundreds of cryptic and quick crosswords, wordsearches and other puzzles are available on this entertaining British site.
Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

(A general explanation of cryptic crosswords and how to solve them is available from a netnews FAQ list.
John Fielding,
CEO

Berkeley word puzzlers club: semi-annual Equinox Word Games parties since 1985; weekly team solving of cryptic crosswords since 1982.
Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker

Likes cryptic crossword puzzles.
 
 
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