araucarian

1. (crosswording) Of or pertaining to the cryptic crossword style used by "Araucaria" (John Galbraith Graham); focused on humour and lateral thinking rather than strict grammaticality.Examples: "They vary as much as the Guardian but generally exclude the more Araucarian style of puzzle."; "True-blue Ximeneans would be appalled – a rubbery clue, a deviant whim, not a verb in sight – but I reckon it's funny, and inventive, and Araucarian – the other word to describe libertarians."; "The clues were close to Ximenean standards, with just the occasional superfluous "to" or "a". But solvers detected another, Araucarian layer of meaning"