A Dataset of Cryptic Crossword Clues

cryptics.georgeho.org is a dataset of cryptic crossword clues, collected from various blogs and digital archives.

This repository contains:

The cryptics Python library to scrape various cryptic crossword blogs and parse the scraped blog posts into a structured dataset of cryptic crossword clues.
The docs, static files and templates needed to generate the static site for documentation.
Miscellaneous scripts and queries to publish and deploy the Datasette instance.

For more information, please see cryptics.georgeho.org.

License

This dataset is made available under the Open Database License. A human-readable summary is available here. Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License.

HTML and CSS code was modified from pandoc-markdown-css-theme, which is licensed under the Blue Oak Model License. The remainder of the code is licensed under the MIT License.

cryptics.georgeho.org is written in a mix of Python, Bash and SQL and is run on my personal laptop.

The data is published using Datasette and deployed on a Fly Trial Plan. Datasette has been remarkably easy to work with and a pleasure to use.

The documentation is a static site adapted from pandoc-markdown-css-theme.