Best Daily Cryptic Crossword

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A free daily cryptic crossword, with a Reveal button for beginners.

on arkadium.com

Best Daily Cryptic Crossword in play: an empty British-style grid with 15 Across, So or thus, highlighted, Across and Down clue lists on the right, a timer and Check, Reveal and Print buttons

Best Daily Cryptic Crossword is Arkadium's free cryptic: each clue is a small word puzzle of its own, mixing a definition with wordplay such as anagrams. A new grid arrives every day, and the Reveal button helps when a clue will not crack.

About Best Daily Cryptic Crossword

Best Daily Cryptic Crossword is the cryptic member of Arkadium's Best Daily crosswords. Where the quick and American versions use straight definitions, here each clue hides its answer in wordplay: anagrams, hidden words and double meanings, alongside a definition at one end of the clue.

Arkadium pitches it at newcomers as well as regular solvers. Its tips are to read each clue at least three times, practise anagrams, think outside the box and not take anything at face value, and the Reveal button uncovers a letter, a word or the whole grid when you are stuck.

It is free in the browser with ads, which makes it a way into cryptics without a British newspaper subscription. Players who already solve the Guardian or Times cryptics will find it a lighter daily grid.

How to play Best Daily Cryptic Crossword

Open the game and pick today's puzzle, or an earlier one if the game offers its archive.
Click a square or a clue to choose an across or down entry.
Type your answers and use the crossing words to confirm them.
Treat each clue as a definition plus wordplay, and look for anagrams and hidden words.
Use Check or Reveal on a letter, a word or the whole grid if you get stuck.

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Best Daily Cryptic Crossword title art: the words Best Cryptic Crossword easy in white and gold over a dim purple background of old papers and a crossword grid

Tips

Read each clue at least three times; the surface meaning is usually a decoy.
Look for anagram signals such as words meaning broken, mixed or wild.
Use Reveal on a single letter rather than the whole word to keep some of the solve.