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Is this a totally different thing than Dr. Fill [1]?

[1]: https://slate.com/technology/2021/04/american-crossword-puzz...

It is. The results section indicate that BCS performs better than Dr. Fill by a significant amount.

I'm curious how well this performs on the New York Times Thursday puzzles, and specifically whether or not it can handle rebus answers where multiple letters can exist in a single square.

Or something like November 26, 2020, with what is kind of an anti-rebus and letters that span more than one cell, or January 27, 2022 with musical notation for repeated letters in a word, or February 7, 2019 which involved writing outside the puzzle grid.

Thursdays can sometimes hurt my head.

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