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(I'm not particularly happy with the above paragraph, I'm sure there are ways to explain it more clearly in words; however, I think the example below helps a lot)
A small example, to illustrate the format:
1 | 2 | . | ||
. | ||||
3 | 4 | |||
. | ||||
5 |
Clues
Across
1. Sheep sound (3)
3. Neither liquid nor gas (5)
5. Humour (3)
Down
1. Road passenger transport (3)
2. Permit (5)
4. Shortened form of Dorothy (3)
The solution to this crossword is:
1B | 9A | 2A | . | . |
9U | . | 9L | . | . |
3S | 9O | 9L | 9I | 4D |
. | . | 9O | . | 9O |
. | . | 5W | 9I | 9T |
(to be added, when I've checked my facts)
Outline:
A notation has evolved to allow crosswords to be rendered compactly, and enjoyed by the blind or partially sighted[?].
It consists of giving the locations of the black squares in each row as letters (A=1,B=2, etc.), eg for the example crossword above:
Although the numbering scheme could be consistently applied from this information, it is customary to quote the starting square of each clue in (number-letter) format to assist the solver.
Several variant types of crossword now exist, including:
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