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“Making cryptic” means making something obscure, puzzling, or difficult to understand. It may describe deliberately disguising the meaning of a statement. Read “making” as an active participle and “cryptic” as “obscuring” or “mysterious,” rather than as a reference to crossword construction. The answer should be a verb form matching the entry length and crossings.
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