{"id":6004,"date":"2025-11-05T19:09:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/?p=6004"},"modified":"2025-11-05T19:09:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:09:52","slug":"clinical-data-deletion-indicators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/05\/clinical-data-deletion-indicators\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical Data &#8211; Deletion Indicators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I had for some time felt that the list of deletion indicators was in need of reassessment, particularly in respect of passive departure indicators such as &#8216;rejected&#8217;, where it was not clear how they would be used in a clue &#8211; eg would &#8220;Burn piece of furniture I rejected&#8221; be valid for CHAR (CHAIR &#8211; I)? Prompted by a similar observation from a regular correspondent, I have significantly reworked the table, in particular by:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Adding prepositions where appropriate, so &#8216;rejected&#8217; is now &#8216;rejected by&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>Adding a column showing a likely usage, so for &#8216;rejected&#8217; this is &#8216;Y rejected by X&#8217;, in other words the substring Y is &#8216;rejected by&#8217; the starting string X. Note that the entries in this column are typical examples, but many other constructions are possible, such as &#8216;X having rejected Y&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>Adding a search term &#8216;*T&#8217; to a hidden searchable column. Typing *T in the Search box will filter the list to show only the transitive senses of the verbs indicating departure or expulsion (so \u2018quitting\u2019 but not \u2018expelled by\u2019); to find, for instance, all the transitive departure indicators, one can sort by indicator type and then use the *T filter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The wordplay in &#8220;Burn piece of furniture I rejected&#8221; for CHAR contains what is often termed an &#8216;invisicomma&#8217; between &#8216;furniture&#8217; and &#8216;I&#8217;; the solver is being asked to infer a comma which is not there, because in order to be grammatically sound the wordplay needs to read &#8216;assertion, I rejected&#8217; (or, alternatively, &#8216;assertion with I rejected&#8217;). The comma isn&#8217;t there, of course, because it would adversely affect the surface reading, but that is surely something that the setter should have dealt with, rather than presenting the solver with an unsound cryptic reading &#8211; in the example, the addition of the missing comma (&#8220;Burn piece of furniture, I rejected&#8221;) renders a previously natural reading nonsensical. The invisicomma is becoming more common in puzzles, but several editors will still not accept it, quite rightly in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to think that the new list is an improvement on the old one, but I would welcome your views. And please let me know if you spot any errors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The list of deletion indicators has had a makeover<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6004"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6009,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions\/6009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}