Cryptic forms
A standard form of any type with clues given in cryptic-crossword style is a cryptic form. (See the cryptics section.) Cryptic forms have appeared in both the Forms and Extras sections of The Enigma. Often, as in the example below, the clues are listed in alphabetical order rather than in grid order.
CRYPTIC SQUARE
Changes left behind? About time
Endless grass in poison
Gores confused monsters
Master without one way of knowing
Noisy man would supervise
The answer to the cryptic square is
OGRES
GUIDE
RICIN
EDITS
SENSE
Explanations (in clue order as originally presented): “side” (left) reversed around “t” (time); “rice” curtailed + “in”; anagram of “Gores”; “sensei” (Master) without “i” (one); homonym of “guy’d”. See the cryptics section for more discussion of cryptic clues.