Pith Number

pith:EZSXNFRF

pith:2025:EZSXNFRFGINKXJ6GJHUZ2JXBR4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Reasoning-Based Approach to Cryptic Crossword Clue Solving

Martin Andrews, Sam Witteveen

arxiv:2506.04824 v1 · 2025-06-05 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EZSXNFRFGINKXJ6GJHUZ2JXBR4}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:16:37.307240Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2665769625321aaba7c649e99d26e18f1b9f4fac93a8d314fd9177d62a5a13a9

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.04824 · arxiv_version: 2506.04824v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.04824 · pith_short_12: EZSXNFRFGINK · pith_short_16: EZSXNFRFGINKXJ6G · pith_short_8: EZSXNFRF

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EZSXNFRFGINKXJ6GJHUZ2JXBR4 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 2665769625321aaba7c649e99d26e18f1b9f4fac93a8d314fd9177d62a5a13a9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "12bc130d09fe30bd86de31821e9be0e26023f4b2aadbe4f5375b7ee14eae5034",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-05T09:43:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8dbb1f4c47bbcfe7fee3d08a42300ea363a2e3fc076568136e82aecaf7584bfd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.04824",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}