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Also, we would really appreciate it if you could prominently refer to it as an 'eHit'.

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[โ€“] palordrolap@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Or they could push for the sort of crosswords with more black squares (very common here in Britain) that rarely have anything bigger than a 1x1 intersection. There are other ways to challenge the solver.

[โ€“] Deebster@programming.dev 8 points 9 months ago

I only do the cryptics myself - I like that you can be confident you have the right answer without waiting for the crossers to check your guess.