Wordplay Pinpoint Answers

Wordplay puzzles punish the obvious reading. A clue like "bank" might mean river, money, or tilt, and the editors know which door you will walk through first. The winning move is to list two or three senses per clue, then look for the one sense that lines up across all five.

These often overlap with Different Meanings and Compound Phrases patterns. If your first guess works for three clues and scrapes past a fourth, keep going. Check the pattern tags on each answer page to see how the trick was built.