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license: mit
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These are automatically created crosswords from [this](https://huggingface.co/datasets/jeggers/more_crosswords) dataset.

Words contains the all the words of the crossword. First horizontal, then vertical.
Clues contains the clues for the words in the same order. There is a year after each clue indicating
when the orginal crossword was published where the clue came from.

There are 4 different "shapes" with each 10000 games. The shape is indicated by the type field.

Type "x-x-x":
```
xxxxx
x x x
xxxxx
x x x
xxxxx
```

Type "x-x-x-x":
```
xxxxxxx
x x x x
xxxxxxx
x x x x
xxxxxxx
x x x x
xxxxxxx
```

Type "-x-x-x-":

```
 x x x 
xxxxxxx
 x x x 
xxxxxxx
 x x x 
xxxxxxx
 x x x 
```

Type "x--x--x":
```
xxxxxxx
x  x  x
x  x  x
xxxxxxx
x  x  x
x  x  x
xxxxxxx
```


x denotes always a character and the whitespace is an empty field.