Cracking Cryptic Crosswords Colin Dexter
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Cracking Cryptic Crosswords, by Inspector Morse’s creator Colin Dexter, opens with a
delightful new short story about Morse and Lewis with a puzzle theme.
In addition to being a hugely successful author, Colin Dexter is also a prize-winning cryptic crossword solver and setter. Wishing to bring the rewarding and stimulating world of crossword solving to a larger audience, he has written this entertaining and instructive little book on how to begin to understand what to many people are often incomprehensible cryptic crossword clues. Abbreviations, Hiddens, and How to spot an Anagram are some of the topics Colin Dexter covers in the book, which contains one crossword towards the end, on a Morse theme, as a rewarding exercise for the reader. Cracking Cryptic Crosswords is a masterful and engaging guide for the would-be cryptic crossword solver.
