Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs?

As of 14 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 31 of 31 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2412.09012.

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This paper cites FlashAttention-2: Faster Attention with Better Parallelism and Work Partitioning.

What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? FlashAttention-2: Faster Attention with Better Parallelism and Work Partitioning

Reference 1

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What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Unresolved cited work

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What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Unresolved cited work

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What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Friedlander and Philip A.

What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Friedlander and Philip A

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What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Friedlander and Philip A

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What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites MegaBlocks: Efficient Sparse Training with Mixture-of-Experts.

What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? MegaBlocks: Efficient Sparse Training with Mixture-of-Experts

Reference 8

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This paper cites Gemma: Open Models Based on Gemini Research and Technology.

What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Gemma: Open Models Based on Gemini Research and Technology

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What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Unresolved cited work

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What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Mixtral of Experts.

What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Mixtral of Experts

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This paper cites Littman, Greg A.

What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Littman, Greg A

Reference 14

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What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Unresolved cited work

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What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Unresolved cited work

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What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites GPT-4 Technical Report.

What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? GPT-4 Technical Report

Reference 18

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This paper cites Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer.

What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer

Reference 19

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What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Unresolved cited work

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Observation a6159e5b-2ddd-4b41-b536-e45d0d5f8df8 · outbound

This paper cites Are LLMs Good Cryptic Crossword Solvers?.

What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Are LLMs Good Cryptic Crossword Solvers?

Reference 21

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This paper cites Language Models are Crossword Solvers.

What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Language Models are Crossword Solvers

Reference 22

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What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Chi, Sharan Narang, Aakanksha Chowdhery, and Denny Zhou.

What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Chi, Sharan Narang, Aakanksha Chowdhery, and Denny Zhou

Reference 24

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This paper cites Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models.

What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models

Reference 25

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This paper cites Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models.

What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models

Reference 26

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This paper cites ExpertPrompting: Instructing Large Language Models to be Distinguished Experts.

What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? ExpertPrompting: Instructing Large Language Models to be Distinguished Experts

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This paper cites Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models.

What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models

Reference 28

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What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? Unresolved cited work

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What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? online" 'onlinestring :=

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What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? write newline

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This paper cites The Llama 3 Herd of Models.

What Makes Cryptic Crosswords Challenging for LLMs? The Llama 3 Herd of Models

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