This crossword is strangely obscure

Usage examples of cryptic.

But it runs side by side with an almost cryptic agnosticism about the real nature of the gods to be propitiated.

Thero march off up the stairs, but Alec thought he caught the hint of a cryptic frown before the old servant doddered off toward the kitchen.

In a way, he was more cryptic than Renz or Alker, for his whole expression was immobile.

It was a scene from a vision of Fuseli, and over all the rest reigned that riot of luminous amorphousness, that alien and undimensioned rainbow of cryptic poison from the well--seething, feeling, lapping, reaching, scintillating, straining, and malignly bubbling in its cosmic and unrecognizable chromaticism.

The road ended abruptly at a great hole in the ground, similar to that which they had seen at the shrine of Uray Caver, except that this one was begemmed with glistening creet platters, and everywhere about it were queer oblongs of god-metal scored with cryptic runes.

The abbreviations for cystine and cysteine are more cryptic and deserve some explanation, for they will be important later on.

Poor cryptic Dorr, who spent twenty-five years trying to do something crazy enough to break herself free of her grandfather.

Wearing a cryptic grin, Goldy Tancred struck a match and ignited the paper which bore the plans for the next crime.

The only ties they had to their past were cryptic stones, some of which Nata and I deciphered and which helped us learn about the ship.

He beheld shuddering lines that a fleshly tongue is witless to describe, except perhaps in spurts of impression --prolongated, splayed at angles, an obliquangular mass of smeared and clotted material, glaucous clay dredged from an old and abiding coomb where earthly veins dangle and fell waters drip as the sculpture dripped, milky-lucent starshine in the cryptic barn, an intumescent hulk rent from the floss of a carnival mirror.

McKennah nodded to Pavone, who snatched up the phone and spoke in cryptic terms of art to an underling.

Only the Reunification Democratic Party was talking, and then only in cryptic statements.

And again, there is the desire to compress a telegraphic message into the minimum sixpennyworth, and so send an ambiguous and cryptic sentence, when sevenpence would have made it as clear as light.

And the famous Mohenjo-daro steatite seals, with their cryptic animal symbols and pictographic markings.

I stood in the semidarkness, rubbing my aching head, all this came back to me, and I stared fearsomely across the vast chamber at that black cryptic corridor into which Tamera and her lover had disappeared, and over which silence lay like a pall.