letter bank
letter bank noun: a type of cryptic device similar to an anagram, but in which fodder letters can be used more than once.
Noun
letter bank (plural letter banks)
- A type of cryptic device similar to an anagram, but in which fodder letters can be used more than once.
- One form of wordplay that’s proved both popular and fruitful in the National Puzzlers’ League—but has been used rarely if at all in cryptic crosswords—is the letter bank.2013 February 14, Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto, “Going to the Bank”, in The Nation
- If you started out with the northeast pair of “Revolutionary War heroes” at 28A and 13D, you could be really confused — NATHAN HALE and ETHAN ALLEN aren’t anagrams, but they’ve got the same number of letters in their names — and the same letters, which satisfies the rules of the letter bank game.2018 February 24, Caitlin Lovinger, New York Times
Forms of letter bank
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Questions about letter bank
- What does letter bank mean?
- Letter bank means a type of cryptic device similar to an anagram, but in which fodder letters can be used more than once.
- What part of speech is letter bank?
- Letter bank is a noun.
- What is the plural of letter bank?
- The plural of letter bank is letter banks.
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