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From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
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Subject: Re: Machiavelli died (12/10/2019)
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 21:56:55 +1300
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On 13/10/2024 7:42 a.m., Aidan Kehoe wrote:
> 
>   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]”

Yes Crystal mentions that Statistician was her day job.
I'm glad there is (or was) a Dental Estimates Board, whatever it is they 
do (did).

> 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/
>