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Cryptic crosswords for beginners: me, myself and I

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Alan Connor demystifies the devices used in cryptic crosswords for beginners and asks experienced solvers to share their favourite examples. This time: when setters mention themselves

With the centenary of the crossword approaching, I smell newcomers around the puzzle page of the paper. Maybe it's time, some are saying, to give this cryptic malarkey a bash? And so it's only fair to add another tip to our ongoing series, Cryptic crosswords for beginners.

Today we look at the first person. Cryptic clues are typically unpredictable pieces of language, seemingly unconnected to anything in the rest of the paper, possibly the rest of the world.

11d Boatman employs misdirection€” it'€™s widely admired (4)

24d Repeating oneself in something that might go viral (4)

10ac Cabturned colour€” setter'€™sgetting stuffed (9)

1d Withexclamation of regret, setter'sbrought upsausage! (6)

2d Aim for the thingGordius has? (9)

26d This writer goes up and downaboutonegirl (5)

2d Solverno good? Won't be so forever (5)

2d Change ofdirection: Boatman'€™s lostfaith (8)


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