Cryptic crossword
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A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, as well as Ireland, the Netherl
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Edward Powys Mathers
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Edward Powys Mathers was an English translator and poet, and also a pioneer of compiling advanced cryptic crosswords.
Cryptic crossword
…cryptic material: not cryptic clues in the modern sense, but anagrams, classical allusions, incomplete quotations, and other references and wordplay. Torquemada (Edward Powys Mathers), who set for The Saturday Westminster from 1925 and for The Observer from 1926 until his death in 1939, was the first setter to use cryptic clues…
Edward Powys Mathers