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		sirdavidof on Dec 5, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stephen Sondheim on How to Do a Crossword Puzzle (... It seems like a certain type of mind would be great at this. I wonder what else being good at cryptic crosswords correlates with.

fancyfredbot on Dec 5, 2021 [–]

Cryptic crosswords were supposedly used to recruiter codebreakers to work at Bletchley park

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