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You’ll also be among the first to play exciting new games, like Cross Atlantic, our US-style crossword with bags of British intelligence. It’s made quite the wave, the furthermost ripples of which have found their way into today’s Telegraph puzzles. If you’re somebody who uses brainteasers as a means to break the cycle of doomscrolling seemingly endless bad news, you might want to look away now. Perhaps the most well-known example is "moon starer", which is an anagram of ASTRONOMER. This may be slightly unfair on Galileo et al, as the Moon is only one heavenly body out of countless billions, but there's no doubt that it's appropriate.

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The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. Please review our These all belong to a specific class of anagrams that provides more entertainment than most: the aptagram. Our Cross Atlantics are particularly friendly to solvers, as they feature more topical references than our other puzzles, and are created in a more compact style. This means that solving just a handful of clues will give you hints to help you find other answers, and can help get you out of a jam. If only Ellie and Joel’s journey was as simple. The machine room at Bletchley Park, where Britain’s WWII code-breakers worked to decipher Nazi messages There’s a little something for everyone, no matter what your skill level or how much time you have; our Mini Crossword and PlusWord should only take a couple of minutes of your time each day.The first crosswords appeared in newspapers during the Woodrow Wilson presidency, in the years leading up to World War I. Panic began, as it often does, among those who derived deeper meaning from the fad’s furious popularity—the people who saw it as evidence of more dramatic changes under way. (See also: the fidget spinner. And, for that matter, the telegraph.)

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However, the fact that THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY is a jumble of OH, NASTY TARTAN POLITICS still raises a smile.Aptagram" may sound like a made-up word, but its meaning is as it sounds: an anagram of a word which is apt when taking into account its meaning. It's a fairly recent coinage, as for many years this kind of wordplay was known as a cognate anagram, "cognate" meaning "derived from the same root". There's no doubt that "aptagram" is far snappier. Editor’s Note: The Atlantic Crossword is a mini puzzle that gets more challenging each weekday. See if you can solve today’s puzzle. The miracle and menace of each era is original, but the debate over how Americans spend their time remains extraordinarily consistent over the decades.