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Download full textCleary, John – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1996
This paper investigates the intentional creation of ambiguity by composers of cryptic crossword puzzles. Taking a research question of "what makes a cryptic clue more difficult to solve than a simple crossword clue," it compares a sample of cryptic and quick crosswords from "The Guardian" and attempts to isolate the linguistic…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Figurative Language
