"Printer's Devilry" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1968, Albert Ross Eckler, Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics:",
          "text": "In addition, based on a British form called \"Printer's Devilry,\" each answer word has been \" stolen\" from its clue, wherein it was originally hidden as consecutive letters.",
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          "ref": "1971, New York Magazine, page 65:",
          "text": "Solvers must not only complete the diagram but also send in a \"Printer's Devilry\" clue to the Keyword in the Playfair Square.",
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          "ref": "2013, Alan Connor, Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword, Penguin UK, →ISBN:",
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