Jinan's Puzzle Nook

Highscool Cryptic Crosswords

In highschool, I did a stint of writing cryptic crosswords. It was a joy to do, though believe they ended up getting solved by a librarian or two (at most).

I wrote a somewhat incomplete guide to solving cryptic crosswords1 to help people learn the basics, then published the following four cryptics:


  1. This is worth a read, if only for the fact I created my own type of clue signalled by "I guess"