THE SUN TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD BOOK 1: 80 two-in-one cryptic and coffee time crosswords (The Sun Puzzle Books)

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If the word is inside or around the cryptic indicator (Container), look out for indicator words such as “holding”, “surrounding,” or “swallowing.”

In this case, “Do legal owners” is the anagram fodder, “birds” is the definition hint, so the answer is “Long-eared owls”. Charades For example, in the cryptic crossword “Relative entering Highland dance and showing off (9)” you know the inner word needs to go within the outer word due to “entering”. There is a full list of them here, and can either mean removing the first letter, last letter, or a central letters, depending on which is used. You then look at the other words to reach the answer “tar”, as celebrity is also known as a “star” and you “behead” the first letter. Double definitionsTypically “hidden” indicator words are used, such as “buried in”, “concealed” or even “in” and “from”.

For example, in the cryptic crossword “Narrow channel – not winding, we hear (6)”, the answer would be “strait”.The indicator word comes next to the phrase that is anagram fodder and needs its letters reshuffling. For example, in the cryptic crossword “Yearn for quite a while (4)” the answer would be “long”, as it fits with both parts of the phrase. Hidden words Your next step is to look at “relative” and “Highland dance and showing off” to get the final answer of “flaunting”, containing “aunt” for “relative” and “flaunting” for “showing off”. Deletions

For example, in the cryptic crossword “Do legal owners free birds? (4-5,4)”, “free” would be the indicator word alerting you to the fact it is an anagram puzzle. With cryptic definitions, these consist of just a definition and are phrased to be deliberately confusing. For example, in the cryptic crossword “Pole coming from Pakistan or Thailand (5)” you can tell it is a hidden word, due to “from” being in the phrase. This would be made from the “weapon” being a lance, and the Round Table knight would make this Lancelot. Containers and Contents This would be because “fish round” would be “cod” with the letters reversed round the other way. Cryptic definitionsHomophones are pairs of words or phrases that have indicators referring to sound, like “so we hear” or “it’s said” or “speech”.