Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The mere mention of “cryptic” crossword clues can be enough to put an amateur puzzler off their game before pencil has hit paper.

Cryptic crosswords might seem like gibberish at first glance, but there is method to the madness, with patterns that you can learn to identify to break down the puzzles.

Hello fellow cryptic-solvers! Welcome to a brand new section of The Daily: Cardinal Cryptic! The Cardinal Cryptic is a fun crossword puzzle that contains a hidden word. You can find our first puzzle ...

Richard Silvestri returns and shakes our cryptic confidence. By Caitlin Lovinger CRYPTIC CROSSWORD — Today’s cryptic was slow going for me, probably because there are hardly any anagrams, and I lean ...

You may have heard of the “10,000-hour rule”, the belief that it takes thousands of hours of intense practice to become an expert in something. Training and practice are clearly vitally important in ...