We hope you found your brain suitably teased by computer scientist Matthew Ginsberg鈥檚 artificial-intelligence crossword setter, Dr Fill (New Scientist, 20/27 December 2014, p 75, or online as 鈥�Try the hardest crossword ever set by a computer鈥�). This friendly AI wrote the puzzle above for us. If you are confident that your wet organic matter has the match of cool hard silicon, this is where you get the chance to submit your answers 鈥� with the chance to win a prize.
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