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rschroll / crosswords

Crossword client for Ubuntu
http://rschroll.github.io/crosswords
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Add some cryptic crossword sources #14

Closed mikix closed 8 years ago

mikix commented 8 years ago

I'd love it if some cryptic crossword sources were added.

I looked around online, but couldn't find any that published in the .puz format. :( Maybe you'll happen upon some in the course of normal crossword searching.

Thanks for considering it!

mikix commented 8 years ago

For popular examples of cryptic crosswords, consider: http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/series/cryptic http://puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/cryptic-crossword-independents/ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/puzzles-and-crosswords/cryptic-crossword/

rschroll commented 8 years ago

I had looked at the Guardian's puzzles before, but they seem to render the puzzle completely on the server side, so we'd have to parse the generated HTML to figure out what it looks like.

The Independent and the Globe and Mail are both using the Crossword Compiler XML format, so it'd be rather easy to add them to the list of sources. However, cryptic puzzles break the assumption that every cell will have both an across clue and a down clue associated with it.

rschroll commented 8 years ago

I've added puzzles from the Independent and the Globe and Mail, so I've gone ahead and closed this bug. I'm still happy to add additional sources as you find them. If you figure out a way to extract the grid from the Guardian's page, let me know and we can include it as well.

mikix commented 8 years ago

Oh thank you so much. That's great!

rschroll commented 8 years ago

I finally figured out where the Guardian was hiding the information about their crosswords, so they are supported now as well.