I'd like to get better sensitivity at reading for puns/wordplay. For example, noticing that "proper tea" sounds like "property" ... any tips/tricks for developing this sensitivity?
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Used to do the Times of India one in college. Recently did the NYT one for a while, but it's only occasionally and partially cryptic. Is there a good brit one you recommend? Medium hard/not too UK-centric, and preferably free?
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Also, I think this is the primary appeal of writers like Pratchett. It's like he went to perverse lengths in service of really shallow wordplay, but sometimes it puts you in bizarre map-territory weirdness states.
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Ha I had a sense that the cryptic crossword would find a home in the Indian imagination - much like Woodhouse. The guardian has its cryptic crosswords available free online
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Yeah the style is similar, but the content is Indian. See for eg. And yeah, Wodehouse is really popular, along with Christie, but I suspect that had more to do with books being expensive and the few being widely circulated/shared. sparthasarathy.biz/crosswords/tim

