Series This is post 3 of the Crossword Science series. < > In my last post on crossword science, I looked at whether people get better at crosswords over time. They don't.1 [1 Or, they do, for the first few months; but not after that, on average.] But that just looked at doing one crossword every day. What if you did dedicated, sustained crossword practice? That's today's post. Joe's weekend Joe has always talked of getting good at crosswords. When my model provided him with a single numeric ...