(AnswerBank seems to think there are over 2000 characters in this response, whereas my character-counter makes it some 1500. Still, I'd better split it in two.)
Eddery, if you click
here, you will find a question I posted here some five years ago. Granted it refers to AnswerBank queries about quizzes, but the point applied equally to crosswords.
I had been, frankly, horrified to see to what use the Q & P category was being put. But, when it became clear that I was howling alone in the wilderness, I decided, "If you can't beat �em, join �em!"
However, I elected to provide answers where I could to
ALL such queries for the obvious reason that no rational grounds exist to justify picking and choosing. The �sacred statistics' are no more than a pathetic smokescreen. The main elements of these which are of any
real significance to individual solvers in my view are...a) How many grids did I complete successfully this year? And b) How long is it since I last submitted a grid with a mistake?
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