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Formed by printer's devil + -ry or blend of printer's devil + devilry. As a crosswording term, coined by British crossword setter Alistair Ferguson Ritchie (Afrit).
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printer's devilry
Today it means: A type of crossword puzzle where solvers have to identify the string of letters, spelling out a word, that has been removed from a sentence. Full definition →