The Atlantic Cryptic Crosswords

Dedicated puzzle enthusiasts see it too often: ordinary crosswords with ho-hum clues like Toledos lake for ERIE. That means they need to spice up their solving with the pure puzzling pleasure of cryptic crosswords. Here, each clue offers double the dose of wordplay: to find the answer, theyll have to do a little extra decipheringrecognizing a homophone, for example, or working out a charade. Once fans try cryptics, theyll never return to regular crosswords again!