YES!
My main lockdown achievement has been figuring out how to do them.
My main tip would be to stick with one paper/writer - I do the observer’s Everyman crossword on a Sunday. That way you get used to the particular types of clue they like to use.
Then there’s a bunch of common clue types - anagram, homonym, words within words, common abbreviations - and you learn to look out for the signifier words that tell you what type of clue it is.
Final and most useful tip - a cryptic crossword clue always has a ‘cryptic’ part and a literal clue. The literal clue will always be the very first or very last part of the clue.
