Acrostic indicator
begin
“begin” is an acrostic indicator in cryptic crosswords.
Also called letter-selection: you read the initial or final letters of consecutive words to spell part of the answer. Indicators point to beginnings, ends, or leaders.
- Clue types
- Acrostic
- Forms
- begins, beginning
- Subtlety
- moderate
- Part of speech
- participle, verb
“Infant beginning to bore all but you (4)”
Answer: BABY
Definition: "Infant" — a very young child.\n"beginning to" signals taking initial letters.\nTake the first letter of each word in "bore all but you": B, A, B, Y.\nStrung together in order, those initials spell the answer.\nB + A + B + Y gives BABY.
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