Re: Machiavelli died (12/10/2019)

 Ar an dara lá déag de mí Deireadh Fómhair, scríobh Ross Clark:

 > No, the other one, aka Joyce Cansfield (b.1929) a British crossword compiler
 > and general puzzle-wizard.
 > Follow some notes about puzzlers' pseudonymns (members of Spanish Inquisition
 > favoured) and cryptic crossword clues. You probably know more than I do about
 > these things.

Is “nothing at all” more than what you know?

“She studied for her undergraduate degree in statistics at Westfield College,
University of London and her early career involved the running of an early
mainframe computer at the UK's Dental Estimates Board in Eastbourne. Later on
she worked at the University of Leeds as a statistician.[1][2]”

I wondered for a second if Cansfield had worked in codebreaking in Bletchley
Park, but she was 10 in 1939, a little bit young, even for wartime. Another
article on her:
https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/7992607.why-joyceis-still-thequeen-ofwhy-joyce-is-still-the-queen-of-scrabble/

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