{"id":6160,"date":"2025-12-01T15:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/?p=6160"},"modified":"2025-12-01T15:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:44:06","slug":"clinical-data-link-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/clinical-data-link-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical Data – Link Words and Phrases"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s no secret that in my own barred puzzles I try where possible to avoid including words and phrases whose sole purpose is to link the wordplay to the definition (‘fors’ and ‘froms’ among many others), but they are very much a part of the cruciverbal landscape. As long as they are used in a way that is fair to the solver there is absolutely nothing wrong with them, and they can be particularly valuable when (i) the only way to make a clue ‘work’ is to include such a link, or (ii) when one is trying to give the solver a helping hand by pointing them towards the definition .<\/p>\n

I have therefore created a new list<\/a> which attempts to bring together the various words and phrases used for this purpose, showing the direction (wordplay->definition, definition<-wordplay, or either) for which I believe that each is suitable.<\/p>\n

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. The initial list was very much a ‘top of the head’ thing, and 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":"

We now have a list of words and phrases used to link wordplay and definition in a clue<\/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-6160","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\/6160","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=6160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6162,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160\/revisions\/6162"}],"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=6160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}