`cryptics.eigenfoo.xyz` — A Dataset of Cryptic Crossword Clues

1 · George Ho · Sept. 11, 2021, midnight
cryptics.eigenfoo.xyz is a dataset of cryptic crossword clues1, collected from various blogs and publicly available digital archives. I originally started this project to practice my web scraping and data engineering skills, but as it’s evolved I hope it can be a resource to solvers and constructors of cryptic crosswords. The project scrapes several blogs and digital archives for cryptic crosswords. Out of these collected web pages, the clues, answers, clue numbers, blogger’s explanation and com...