{"id":6105,"date":"2025-11-25T18:58:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/?p=6105"},"modified":"2025-11-26T16:20:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:20:22","slug":"clinical-data-blocked-single-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/25\/clinical-data-blocked-single-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical Data &#8211; Single Letters in Blocked Puzzles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A recent discussion on this site regarding the use of &#8216;small&#8217; in a wordplay to indicate the letter S highlighted the fact that while the lists of abbreviations on this site reflect the abbreviations given by Chambers, there is a disparity between these abbreviations and those which are typically allowed in blocked puzzles (which for the most part constitute a subset, but with one or two additions).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have therefore created <a href=\"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/single-letters-in-blocked-puzzles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new list<\/a> which attempts to bring together all the codes used in blocked puzzles to indicate a single letter, including, but not limited to, abbreviations. When it comes to longer abbreviations, editors of blocked puzzles will usually accept those given by the major dictionaries (Chambers, Collins, Oxford Dictionary of English) unless they are both uncommon <em>and<\/em> non-obvious.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Codes which are likely to be accepted for some blocked puzzles but not others are shown in italics. I hope that this list will prove useful, but please leave a comment on this post if you have any observations or spot any errors. I would appreciate suggestions from readers for additional entries, particularly ones which they have seen used in a published crossword.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new list focuses on single letter &#8216;codes&#8217; in blocked puzzles<\/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-6105","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},"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105","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=6105"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6118,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105\/revisions\/6118"}],"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=6105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}