Printer's Devilry

A Printer's Devilry is a form of cryptic crossword puzzle, first invented by Afrit (Alistair Ferguson Ritchie) in 1937.

A Printer's Devilry puzzle does not follow the standard Ximenean rules of crossword setting, since the clues do not define the answers.

In his analysis of Printer's Devilry clues, Ximenes noted that it was a popular type, arguably easier than the standard cryptic but with the potential to be made more difficult by concealing the position of the break.

(8)which must be significantly adjusted to produce the sentence: "When he was dancing at the center, I could not see Jose Limon as ticket expenses there were too high."

[3] In Printer's Devilry clues, the surface can be ungrammatical or nonsensical, but the complete sentence should always be logical and natural.

A barred grid , the kind used by Ximenes and Azed in their puzzles