The first British crossword puzzles appeared around 1923 and were purely definitional, but from the mid-1920s they began to include cryptic material: not cryptic clues in the modern sense, but anagrams, classical allusions, incomplete quotations, and other references and wordplay. standard) crosswords, and sometimes two sets of clues are given for a single puzzle grid.Ĭryptic crossword puzzles come in two main types: the basic cryptic in which each clue answer is entered into the diagram normally, and "themed" or "variety" cryptics, in which some or all of the answers must be altered before entering, usually in accordance with a hidden pattern or rule which must be discovered by the solver.Ĭryptic crosswords originated in the UK. Particularly in the UK, a distinction may be made between cryptics and "quick" (i.e. Compilers of cryptic crosswords are commonly called "setters" in the UK and "constructors" in the US. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle.
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