Next in our collection of tips and tricks: watching out for the Greek alphabet
The previous entry in this helpful series reminded us that those who set cryptic crosswords enjoy using letters from the Nato alphabet to provide temporary confusion and eventual enlightenment.
This instalment is inspired by the recent “viral uproar” involving an employee of a Cretan tax registry who was photographed apparently ignoring a queue and solving a crossword.
... difficult enough for a Professor of Greek to give it up on the ground that he had not ‘a week to spare for it’.
6dPart of alphabet Athenians used (4)
5dCharacter in the Iliad with lightsort of weapons (7)
19acMusicalgoods picked up by character in Argos (7)
20dForeign character covered in horsemuck (6)
alpha
beta
gamma
delta
epsilon
zeta
eta
theta
iota
kappa
lambda
mu
nu
xi
omicron
pi
rho
sigma
tau
upsilon
phi
chi
psi
omega