| ANAGRAMS | Words or phrases rearranged to form others as logic puzzles. word games or ciphers which often appear in cryptic crossword clues (8) |
| GREYAREAS | No definite rules apply in these - ex-Foreign Secretary at first argues referring to withdrawn appea |
| HYMNBOOK | A sexist might pronounce Practical Railway Engineering to be one; it's where the blessed lines appea |
| HYPODERMIC | Way to do my cipher which gets under one's skin (10) |
| LSAT | Exam with a section known as "Logic Games," for short |
| BANANAGRAMS | Popular word game, or, read differently, a hint to the circled letters |
| UNSOUND | Wobbly, as logic |
| ANAGRAM | Word(s) rearranged to form others (7) |
| GHOST | Word game ... or a word that can precede the starts of 18-, 26-, 43- and 54-Across |
| APTAGRAM | Word or phrase whose letters can be rearranged to form another with a similar meaning, such as "moon starer" for "astronomer" |
| TANGRAMS | Puzzles in which squares divided into seven pieces are rearranged to form geometric shapes (8) |
| TANGRAM | Puzzle whereby a parallelogram, a square and five triangles are arranged to form other geometric shapes (7) |
| EPITHETS | Descriptive words or phrases added to, or substituted for, a person's name (8) |
| GLOSSARY | An alphabetical list of words with meanings of words or phrases that are hard to understand (8) |
| EXPRESSION | Speak out to t one working to sum up in words or phrases (10) |
| CHARADES | Games in which players act out words or phrases (8) |
| CURSES | Offensive words or phrases used to express anger or annoyance (6) |
| SHORTHAND | A system of rapid handwriting employing simple strokes and other symbols to represent words or phrases (9) |
| CODES | Secret languages or ciphers written, solved or studied in cryptography (5) |
| ENCODED | Converted message into cryptic words or ciphers (7) |
