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Crossword Puzzles and Ambiguities Anyone who loves crossword puzzles can tell you that figuring out the intentional ambiguities when solving clues is part of the fun of working a puzzle. When trying to solve the clues with ambiguities the help of the answers from crossing clues is usually sufficient enough to allow a puzzle solver to solve almost any puzzle in its entirety. Usually, being the key word. There are exceptions to even this rule as Will Shortz can attest. On November 5, Election Day, 1996 the New York Times ran what Will Shortz called, "the most amazing crossword I've ever seen...