| Harvard student keeping daughter secret | The Times Cryptic | 24 Oct 2025 | 
          
            | Put into a cipher (5) | Puzzler | 12 Oct 2025 | 
          
            | Made some Java, say | New York Times | 26 Sep 2025 | 
          
            | Did computer programming | Commuter | 24 Sep 2025 | 
          
            | Encrypted | Eugene Sheffer | 12 Sep 2025 | 
          
            | Storage device contains poem written in secret language | The Times Cryptic | 28 Jul 2025 | 
          
            | Ciphered (5) | Puzzler | 12 Jul 2025 | 
          
            | Wrote software | Commuter | 08 Jul 2025 | 
          
            | Was a programmer from Delaware into fish? (5) | The Guardian Cryptic | 07 Jul 2025 | 
          
            | Mixed school took in drama head, but not in plain language (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Enciphered | The Sun Two Speed | 03 Apr 2025 | 
          
            | Cryptic verse in music recording | The Sun Two Speed | 03 Apr 2025 | 
          
            | In cipher (5) | Puzzler | 28 Mar 2025 | 
          
            | Seafood press chief disguised (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Fake journalist describing a cryptic message? (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Expressed in cipher (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Needing deciphering | Newsday | 05 Jan 2025 | 
          
            | Did some programming | Commuter | 02 Jan 2025 | 
          
            | Seafood newsman disguised (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Wrote in C++ or Ruby | Universal | 16 Nov 2024 | 
          
            | Encrypted | Commuter | 07 Nov 2024 | 
          
            | Encoded |  |  | 
          
            | Wrote in C or Python, maybe |  |  | 
          
            | Built an app, say | USA Today | 26 Sep 2024 | 
          
            | Wrote some Javascript, say | Universal | 05 Jul 2024 | 
          
            | Play joke on editor, suggesting it's written in a puzzling way |  |  | 
          
            | Chords end oddly when written in Morse (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Made an app, say |  |  | 
          
            | Did some computer programming | New York Times Mini | 23 Mar 2024 | 
          
            | Put in secret writing |  |  | 
          
            | Arranged in a cipher (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Wrote in JavaScript | USA Today | 21 Mar 2024 | 
          
            | Translated into symbols |  |  | 
          
            | Fish starts eating delicacy, but not in plain language (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Wrote some Java, e.g. |  |  | 
          
            | Put into a cipher (5) | Puzzler | 22 Nov 2023 | 
          
            | Wrote 36-Across, say | LA Times Daily | 22 Oct 2023 | 
          
            | Needing deciphering | Newsday | 25 May 2023 | 
          
            | Encrypted | Eugene Sheffer | 17 May 2023 | 
          
            | Wrote software | Universal | 07 May 2023 | 
          
            | Wrote in C++, say | Universal | 02 Apr 2023 | 
          
            | Like some secret messages | Thomas Joseph | 20 Feb 2023 | 
          
            | Wrote in Swift, say | Wall Street Journal | 15 Feb 2023 | 
          
            | Encrypted hoax written by newspaperman? | The Times Cryptic | 20 Dec 2022 | 
          
            | Like some hard-to-read messages | New York Times | 17 Dec 2022 | 
          
            | Like secret messages | Universal | 31 May 2022 | 
          
            | Like apps | The Washington Post | 06 Feb 2022 | 
          
            | Like apps | LA Times Daily | 06 Feb 2022 | 
          
            | Like some messages | Thomas Joseph | 05 Nov 2021 | 
          
            | Unreadable, in a way | Wall Street Journal | 19 Jun 2021 | 
          
            | In need of deciphering | USA Today | 28 May 2021 | 
          
            | Did some programming | Thomas Joseph | 01 Apr 2021 | 
          
            | Like computer language | The Washington Post Sunday | 14 Feb 2021 | 
          
            | Encrypted, as a message | Newsday | 23 Dec 2020 | 
          
            | In need of deciphering | LA Times Daily | 06 Dec 2020 | 
          
            | Like a cryptogram | USA Today | 10 Nov 2020 | 
          
            | Encrypted | Eugene Sheffer | 09 Sep 2020 | 
          
            | Needing a key, perhaps | New York Times | 12 Jun 2020 | 
          
            | Like secret messages | Wall Street Journal | 23 Mar 2020 | 
          
            | Like some messages | Thomas Joseph | 08 Feb 2020 | 
          
            | Produced some Java | LA Times Daily | 16 Nov 2019 | 
          
            | Produced some Java | The Washington Post | 16 Nov 2019 | 
          
            | Wrote in C or Java | Universal | 28 Feb 2019 | 
          
            | Needing deciphering | Newsday | 13 Feb 2019 | 
          
            | Like a cryptogram |  |  | 
          
            | Wrote in C or Java |  |  | 
          
            | Jest by journalist in a language that needs interpretation |  |  | 
          
            | Cryptic verse in music recording |  |  | 
          
            | Like cryptic messages | USA Today | 27 May 2018 | 
          
            | In dots and dashes, maybe | USA Today | 26 Mar 2018 | 
          
            | Like a spy's messages | The Washington Post Sunday | 18 Mar 2018 | 
          
            | Wrote software | Newsday | 13 Feb 2018 | 
          
            | Like a secret message | USA Today | 12 Feb 2018 | 
          
            | Like cryptic messages |  |  | 
          
            | Like a secret message |  |  | 
          
            | Built, as an app | The Washington Post Sunday | 10 Dec 2017 | 
          
            | Needing decryption | USA Today | 25 Mar 2017 | 
          
            | ___ messages (those which are encrypted) |  |  | 
          
            | Encrypted | LA Times Daily | 20 Feb 2017 | 
          
            | Encrypted |  |  | 
          
            | Like spy messages | USA Today | 31 Aug 2016 | 
          
            | Like a cryptogram | LA Times Daily | 07 Jun 2016 | 
          
            | Like a spy's secret message | Newsday | 28 Mar 2016 | 
          
            | Needing decryption | LA Times Daily | 24 Jan 2016 | 
          
            | Needing decryption |  |  | 
          
            | Needing decryption |  |  | 
          
            | Like a cryptogram |  |  | 
          
            | Like secret messages | Thomas Joseph | 24 Nov 2015 | 
          
            | In need of a cracker, perhaps | New York Times | 04 Oct 2015 | 
          
            | Like many wartime messages | Universal | 03 Oct 2015 | 
          
            | Needing decryption | Newsday | 19 Apr 2015 | 
          
            | Not made clear | The Times Cryptic | 15 Apr 2015 | 
          
            | Like cryptograms | USA Today | 22 Jan 2015 | 
          
            | In need of a cracker, perhaps |  |  | 
          
            | Like cryptograms |  |  | 
          
            | Needing decryption |  |  | 
          
            | Wrote software |  |  | 
          
            | Like many wartime messages |  |  | 
          
            | Like a cryptogram |  |  | 
          
            | Needing cracking |  |  | 
          
            | Hard to crack |  |  | 
          
            | Needing cracking |  |  | 
          
            | Encrypted |  |  | 
          
            | Wrote an app |  |  | 
          
            | Put into bars, say |  |  | 
          
            | Like some wartime messages |  |  | 
          
            | Hard to read, maybe |  |  | 
          
            | Put into bars, say |  |  | 
          
            | Like some wartime messages |  |  | 
          
            | Encrypted |  |  | 
          
            | Enciphered |  |  | 
          
            | Like some secret messages |  |  | 
          
            | Like secret messages |  |  | 
          
            | Like a secret missive |  |  | 
          
            | Encrypted, as a message |  |  | 
          
            | Encrypted |  |  | 
          
            | Like secret messages |  |  | 
          
            | Not easy to read |  |  | 
          
            | Ciphered |  |  | 
          
            | Like cryptograms |  |  | 
          
            | Like many wartime messages |  |  | 
          
            | Like spy messages |  |  | 
          
            | In secret language |  |  | 
          
            | Like wartime messages |  |  | 
          
            | Cryptic |  |  | 
          
            | Encrypted |  |  | 
          
            | Needing deciphering |  |  | 
          
            | Emulated Hammurabi |  |  | 
          
            | Like wartime messages |  |  | 
          
            | Like a cryptogram |  |  | 
          
            | Requiring cracking, perhaps |  |  | 
          
            | Hard to crack |  |  | 
          
            | Used encryption |  |  | 
          
            | Used encryption |  |  | 
          
            | Unreadable |  |  | 
          
            | Like a cryptogram |  |  | 
          
            | In C, perhaps |  |  | 
          
            | Ciphered |  |  | 
          
            | Encrypted |  |  | 
          
            | Hard to read |  |  | 
          
            | Like some messages |  |  | 
          
            | Like cryptic notes |  |  | 
          
            | Like cryptograms |  |  | 
          
            | Arranged arcanely |  |  | 
          
            | Scrambled, as a spy's message |  |  | 
          
            | Scrambled, as a spy's message |  |  | 
          
            | Encrypted |  |  | 
          
            | Like DNA |  |  | 
          
            | Like something written in 21-Across |  |  | 
          
            | Not overtly legible |  |  | 
          
            | Cryptic |  |  | 
          
            | Having secret marks, maybe |  |  | 
          
            | Like some messages |  |  | 
          
            | In need of translation |  |  | 
          
            | Secret |  |  | 
          
            | Like a cryptogram |  |  | 
          
            | Like many wartime messages |  |  | 
          
            | Unreadable |  |  | 
          
            | Used a substitution cipher, perhaps |  |  | 
          
            | Did cryptography |  |  | 
          
            | Like a secret cable |  |  | 
          
            | In ciphers |  |  | 
          
            | Enciphered |  |  | 
          
            | Like secret messages |  |  | 
          
            | Encrypted |  |  | 
          
            | Ciphered |  |  | 
          
            | Like a Morse message |  |  | 
          
            | Put into dots and dashes |  |  | 
          
            | Disguised the meaning |  |  | 
          
            | Hid the meaning |  |  | 
          
            | Like some messages |  |  | 
          
            | Like a heliogram |  |  | 
          
            | Like U.S.A.F. messages |  |  | 
          
            | Scrambled, in a way |  |  | 
          
            | Like cryptograms |  |  | 
          
            | Classified |  |  | 
          
            | Marked for identification |  |  | 
          
            | In dots and dashes |  |  | 
          
            | Like computer cards |  |  | 
          
            | In cipher |  |  | 
          
            | Put into symbols. |  |  | 
          
            | Prepared a computer card |  |  | 
          
            | Like a spy's message. |  |  | 
          
            | Put in cipher. |  |  | 
          
            | Prepared a military message. |  |  |