BLUF
adj.— «In sharp contrast to the bottom-line-upfront (BLUF) mandate of an operations order, the involuted metaphors of a sonnet are downright cryptic.» —“In the Valley of the Shadow” by Elizabeth D. Samet New York Times Sept. 30, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Quiz Guy John Chaneski dons his deerstalker cap and offers a cryptic puzzle in which the combination of two clued words results in a single word. Take, for example, this clue: “A word meaning ‘distant,’ and the end of him is where you’ll find things...
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