Noun

(en noun)

(informal) A cryptic crossword.

* 1996 , Mary McCarthy, Remember Me (page 85)

He settled down to the cryptic in the Independent . He loved his crossword. It kept him mentally active, just as gossip did his wife.

* 2009 , Bill Taylor, Building a crossword'' (in ''Toronto Star , 1 February 2009)

This writer has been solving cryptics for 40 years and can usually crack Araucaria, though it might take a couple of days.

Noun

(mysteries)

Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown.

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}

Someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature.

* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

If God should please to reveal unto us this great mystery of the Trinity, or some other mysteries in our holy religion, we should not be able to understand them, unless he would bestow on us some new faculties of the mind.

* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=

, title= , chapter=5 citation , passage=Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery .}}

(label) A particular event or series of events in the life of Christ.

A secret religious celebration, to which none were admitted except those who had been initiated.