I&#x27;d love to see more of a breakdown of the makeup of cryptics: what percentage of the answers involve anagrams, reversals, homonyms and so on? And how many clues encode the answer in pieces? Seems like a lot of puzzles use a composite of clues like that, with anagrams coming in second. Homonyms and reversals seem pretty rare. The &quot;&amp; lit&quot; type clue is almost never present.<p>But I wonder: are there regional differences? Have certain types of clues fallen out of favor over time? Can I follow puzzlemakers that shoot for more variety?