SPYSCAPE Puzzle Challenge: Five Enigmatic Crosswords

Listen to the podcast A History of the World in Spy Objects - James Grime: Engima Machine

Our sneaky puzzle master Will Nediger hand-picked these five crossword puzzles for budding cryptanalysts - all of them themed around codes, Bletchley Park, and its famous codebreaker Alan Turing.

Try your hand at our exclusive online crosswords, time yourself with our built-in clock, or play online with a friend. You can sign up for free to get SPYSCAPE crosswords automatically delivered to your inbox every Friday and - if you need a bit of help solving our puzzles - check out our handy crossword tip sheet.

1) Enigmatic

Puzzle Challenge: Can You Solve SPYSCAPE’s Five Enigmatic Crosswords? 
Enigmatic: Click on the puzzle to reveal the clues and the solution.


Crossword cruciverbalist Bryant White's Enigmatic will capture the imagination of Turing and Bletchley Park fans. White describes his puzzle as a riddle wrapped in a mystery.

SPYSCAPE Puzzle Challenge: Five Enigmatic Crosswords

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Listen to the podcast A History of the World in Spy Objects - James Grime: Engima Machine

Our sneaky puzzle master Will Nediger hand-picked these five crossword puzzles for budding cryptanalysts - all of them themed around codes, Bletchley Park, and its famous codebreaker Alan Turing.

Try your hand at our exclusive online crosswords, time yourself with our built-in clock, or play online with a friend. You can sign up for free to get SPYSCAPE crosswords automatically delivered to your inbox every Friday and - if you need a bit of help solving our puzzles - check out our handy crossword tip sheet.

1) Enigmatic

Puzzle Challenge: Can You Solve SPYSCAPE’s Five Enigmatic Crosswords? 
Enigmatic: Click on the puzzle to reveal the clues and the solution.


Crossword cruciverbalist Bryant White's Enigmatic will capture the imagination of Turing and Bletchley Park fans. White describes his puzzle as a riddle wrapped in a mystery.

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Puzzle Challenge: Can You Solve SPYSCAPE’s Five Enigmatic Crosswords? 
The Bombe machine that helped Turing decipher German Enigma ciphers is on display at SPYSCAPE in NYC 


2) 1010010001

Puzzle Challenge: Can You Solve SPYSCAPE’s Five Enigmatic Crosswords? 
1010010001: Click on the puzzle to reveal the clues and solution.


You’ll need to do some digital deciphering in order to solve White’s tricky 1010010001 puzzle but if you want to be a codebreaker, you will need to solve puzzles like this every day!

Puzzle Challenge: Can You Solve SPYSCAPE’s Five Enigmatic Crosswords? 
Alan Turing worked with British and American code breakers to break the German Enigma ciphers

3) Encrypted

Puzzle Challenge: Can You Solve SPYSCAPE’s Five Enigmatic Crosswords? 
Encrypted: Click on the puzzle to reveal the clues and the solution.


You’ll also be challenged by puzzle constructor Catherine Cetta's Encrypted. But you didn’t really think SPYSCAPE would go easy on you, did you? 

Puzzle Challenge: Can You Solve SPYSCAPE’s Five Enigmatic Crosswords? 
Bletchley Park found Britain’s WWII code breakers by setting a crossword in the Daily Telegraph

4.) Get Cracking

Puzzle Challenge: Can You Solve SPYSCAPE’s Five Enigmatic Crosswords? 
Get Cracking: Click on the puzzle to reveal the clues and the solution.

By now you can probably guess the theme of Get Cracking, but the more important question is: Can you solve this fiendishly difficult puzzle? 

Puzzle Challenge: Can You Solve SPYSCAPE’s Five Enigmatic Crosswords? 
Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game (2014)


5) Crack Open Your Wallet

Puzzle Challenge: Can You Solve SPYSCAPE’s Five Enigmatic Crosswords? 
Crack Open Your Wallet: Click on the puzzle to reveal the clues and solution.


Ensure your money is safe before trying your hand at Crack Open Your Wallet from crossword constructor Lisa Senzel.

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