Friday, October 23, 2015

The world's longest crossword clue - puzzle #2

The world's longest crossword clue series continues.

Here is another contended for the world's longest crossword clue. This time, there should be no objections.

1 Ac. In fish's body part, sex appeal. And, in Spain, the number that comes last in the series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, ... <all numbers from 1 to a hundred million> , 100,000,000, .... (8)

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Note that you can add as many numbers are you want after the number '10'. So this clue is also as long as you want to make it.

In fact, you can make the cardinality equal to aleph-naught. Here is a clue for that.

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1 Ac. In fish's body part, sex appeal. And, in Spain, the number that comes last in the series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, ... <all positive integers included here>. (8)

Here is how the clue is spewed out.

You have a machine that spews out the clue, one word (or to be more precise, one token) at a time. The clue itself is infinite in length. Every positive integer will eventually be covered.

Of course, although the clue is infinite in length, the answer itself is finite in length.