In addition to the opening, an event that had been long-awaited, the scenic spot, which is located in Zunyi, Guizhou province, also issued an announcement seeking to recruit archaeological volunteers worldwide and inviting them to participate in Hailongtun's archaeological journey.
Definition of cryptic. 1  1 : secret, occult. 2  2a : having or seeming to have a hidden or ambiguous meaning : mysterious cryptic messages cryptic propheciesb : marked by an often perplexing brevity cryptic marginal notes. 3  3 : serving to conceal cryptic coloration in animals; also : exhibiting cryptic coloration cryptic animals.
Most cryptic crosswords provide the number of letters in the answer, or in the case of phrases, a series of numbers to denote the letters in each word: cryptic crossword would be clued with (7,9) following the clue. More advanced puzzles may drop this portion of the clue.he first British crossword puzzles appeared around 1923 and were purely definitional, but from the mid-1920s they began to include cryptic material: not cryptic clues in the modern sense, but anagrams, classical allusions, incomplete quotations, and other references and wordplay.