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

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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. If the word is inside or around the cryptic indicator (Container), look out for indicator words such as “holding”, “surrounding,” or “swallowing.” If the inner word needs to go within the outer word (Content), look for indicator words such as “within”, “filling”, or “entering”.

However, with this new category, you have to wrap the outer word around the inner word (Container) or you have to put the inner word within the outer word (Content).

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.

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 “Beheaded celebrity is sailor (3)”, the word “beheaded” mean that a word loses its first letter. This would be made from the “weapon” being a lance, and the Round Table knight would make this Lancelot. Containers and Contents 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.Typically “hidden” indicator words are used, such as “buried in”, “concealed” or even “in” and “from”. Homophones are pairs of words or phrases that have indicators referring to sound, like “so we hear” or “it’s said” or “speech”. 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 “Weapon used by many a Round Table knight (8)”, the answer would be “Lancelot”. For example, in the cryptic crossword “Narrow channel – not winding, we hear (6)”, the answer would be “strait”.