Cryptic crosswords for beginners: the Nato alphabet

Next in our collection of tips and tricks: watching out for the phonetic alphabet This helpful series – for those tempted to solve cryptics, but perhaps a little afraid – has pointed you at various interesting lists. The periodic table, those IVR letters that show what country a car is from, Roman numerals and so on. Here’s another: the phonetic alphabet. If you’ve been a sea scout, those 26 codewords might come to mind readily; for the rest of us, it’s a matter of