Minute Cryptic crossword
Minute Cryptic is a crossword in miniature: one cryptic clue, not a barred grid of twenty.
A standard cryptic crossword stacks these clues until they cross. Minute Cryptic isolates one so you can finish a parse before crossing letters help or interfere. The grammar is identical: definition plus wordplay plus enumeration.
When you move to a full crossword, keep the same split. Crossing letters become a fourth check, not a first guess. If a crossing disagrees with both gates, the crossing is the thing to revisit.
Start with today, then how to play, then a newspaper cryptic on paper.