Guardian Cryptic/Prize Crossword Analysis

This page renders some charts from data gathered via the Guardian newspaper's cryptic and prize crosswords. The data shown here was scraped via the web.

Each section will eiter explicitly differentiate between prize or cryptic, or not. Where there is no distinction, then the data is aggregated over both prize and cryptic.

The git repository containing this data is here.

Last Updated: Mon Dec 30 01:01:24 2024

1. Total number of crosswords, set by author

This chart shows the number of crosswords set per setter. No real surprises here as to the most prolific setters.

2. Crosswords per year, per setter

This chart shows an area span for the number of crosswords set per setter, per year. Interesting to see when a setter started and stopped.

3. Frequency of word duplications across all crosswords, per setter

This chart shows the number of words a given setter has used more than once, across all crosswords for that setter.

4. Setter Biographies

This shows information about each setter

5. Number of duplicate answers and their questions

This table shows the number of times a given clue has been used and the different questions which have been used to make up that clue.

5a. Number of duplicate clues per setter

This table shows the number of times a given clue has been used per setter.

6. List of all crosswords by setter, which has a PDF version

This table shows the crossword number and a link to the PDF crossword, if available.