Acknowledgments

First of all I would like to thank my adviser Søren Larsen for his advice and patience. Then I will thank Henrik Gordon Petersen for being my second adviserr for a short while and for being the first to believe in this project. Thanks to Vibeke Pierson and Lars Jacobsen for reading the whole lot and point out the errors and misspellings. A special thanks to James Lundon for maintaining the FAQ for the rec.puzzles.crosswords newsgroup. Without his effort I had never found the appropriate references to papers and books. Also a big thanks to Kevin McCann for setting up the Cruciverb-L discussion forum from which I have been inspired with many a good idea. A grateful thought to all the people at this forum. Thanks to Doug McIlroy at Bell Laboratories for sending me the Word Ways papers. A big thanks to Margit Christiansen, our librarian, for finding the remaining papers.

Thanks goes to the following people for thoughts and comments: Andres Rodriguez at MacGuffin Corporation, Boston University, Toke Eskildsen at Aarhus University, Doug McIlroy at Bell Laboratories, Lee Daniel Quinn (a retired communications consultant), Peter Jarosi, John Connett, Lee McGinty, Alec McHoul at Murdoch University, Australia, Navin Kashyap, Frank Longo, Ross Beresford, Ronan O'Riain, William Tunstall-Pedoe, Wei-Hwa Huang, Dan Tilque, and Ole Storm Pedersen.

To all the rest I have forgotten: Thanks a lot!


Sik Cambon Jensen, 2nd January 1997.