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The “surface r

Posted by Kamron on 21st Jun 2016

The “surface reading” of a clue it what it appears to say when read simply as a sentence (rather than as a crossword clue).The “cryptic reading” is the other way of interpreting the clue, as instructions to the solver as to how to arrive at the answer.Often the two are completely different. There’s a famous example by El/gt/NimrodaIo/Enigmatisr: “I say nothing (3)”. This appears to be a sentence in which someone describes him- or herself as silent, but is actually a clue to the word EGO.