This involved using a special set of 'cryptic' words to replace their regular counterparts.

When you listen to them a second time you may sense a basic truth in these cryptic words.

With those cryptic words she swept past them, two guards falling into step behind her.

Later, a cryptic word or two was jotted down in his little book.

The man's cryptic words explained practically nothing, including who were the "we" to which he referred so much.

Things had definitely gotten worse since he first laid eyes on the cryptic words.

He said nothing more to explain those cryptic words until they were all safely inside the main control room of the power plant.

His clues are sometimes no more than a few cryptic words, a date, or a location.

The reporter's message consisted of a single, cryptic word that came over the wire.

When the latter approached, the leader wrote a few cryptic words on a card and showed it to him.