ARAUCARIA
Topic: Surprise, Drowsy Cows RIP, as Corrected (2,5,7,10)
The magic of solving a cryptic crossword is in the joy of discovery. It’s a playful, thought-provoking, confounding, and strangely amusing pastime—a world away from solving standard crosswords, where, in all but the most subtle examples, cleverness and wordplay take a back seat to the exercise of memory and a kind of pattern recognition.
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