![]() ![]() Once you’ve learned the rules of the Times cryptic, much of the mystery is stripped away and you’ll realise it’s really quite a methodical process.ģ. Remember, if a word in the clue cannot be built into the answer, then the answer is wrong. Then we’d be all at sea with an extra “a" and “is" to account for. ![]() Another, less worthy, crossword might have said A particular flavouring is given a Spanish wine (9). The advantage of being on the Times crossword here is that there are no wasted words to worry about. “Tarragon" is the flavouring and given an “a" that makes Tarragona, which you would then discover is a wine-making region in north-eastern Spain.Ģ) There are no wasted words. If you don’t know any names of wines then you’d be stuck if you were in an ordinary crossword. So, in this case, the answer is going to be either a particular flavouring or the name of a Spanish wine. The meaning of the answer to a Times clue is always given in the first or the last couple of words. Here’s a simple example: Particular flavouring given a Spanish wine (9) If you can’t get to the answer one way, you have another path open to you. The premise of a cryptic clue is that it allows you to reach the same answer by two different routes that’s the perfect symmetry of the thing. 1) There are always two ways to solve a clue. ![]()
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