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Printer's Devilry

A Printer's Devilry is a form of cryptic crossword puzzle, first invented by Afrit (Alistair Ferguson Ritchie) in 1937. A Printer's Devilry puzzle does not follow the standard Ximenean rules of crossword setting, since the clues do not define the answers. Instead, each clue consists of a sentence from which a string of letters has been removed and, where…

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Printer's Devilry

Nodes13
Edges12
Triples12
Avg. degree1.85
Density0.153846
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Printer's Devilry

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related to Examples · 6
Printer's Devilry → Azed, For, However, Like, Neither, Ximenean
related to history · 5
Printer's Devilry → Afrit, Afrit's, Its, June, The Listener
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Printer's Devilry → form of cryptic crossword puzzle

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printer's devilry clue sentence word form crossword letters ximenes clues puzzle cryptic answer standard rules setting new punctuation order break

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Printer's Devilryis aform of cryptic crossword puzzle0.90text
Printer's Devilryrelated to ExamplesLike0.60section
Printer's Devilryrelated to ExamplesHowever0.60section
Printer's Devilryrelated to ExamplesXimenean0.60section
Printer's Devilryrelated to ExamplesNeither0.60section
Printer's Devilryrelated to ExamplesFor0.60section
Printer's Devilryrelated to ExamplesAzed0.60section
Printer's Devilryrelated to historyAfrit's0.60section
Printer's Devilryrelated to historyThe Listener0.60section
Printer's Devilryrelated to historyJune0.60section
Printer's Devilryrelated to historyIts0.60section
Printer's Devilryrelated to historyAfrit0.60section

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