Article 1D5E6 Crossword blog: how 'clever' are cryptic solvers?

Crossword blog: how 'clever' are cryptic solvers?

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Alan Connor
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Cryptic puzzles are a lot more mathematical than you might have thought

Good news, everyone: it's New Research Time!

There's an article in the open-access journal Frontiers about the solvers of cryptic crosswords. It's by Kathryn Friedlander and Philip Fine of the University of Buckingham and it's titled The Grounded Expertise Components Approach in the Novel Area of Cryptic Crossword Solving.

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