TWELVE QUICK TIPS FOR STARTERS
(the ambler/penda)
1. Consider carefully the Across clues on the top row and Down clues on the left-hand column. These answers give you the first letters of intersecting clues.
2. Lightly mark the bars which separate the words in a multi-word answer.You may be able to spot ‘a’ , ‘the’ and ‘and’ and various two-letter words.
3. Answers of over 10 letters are often of the in-, con-, pro-, pre-, un- type.
4. If you have i-nat the end of an answer it could be –tion.
5. Proper names with initial capitals are often to be entered as single letters.
6. A few short forms Tory=CON, Party=DO, Scotsman=IAN, Soft=P, Quiet=SH, Loud/strong= F,
Unknown= X