Wordplay (2006): Great Crossword Puzzler Part 2

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was realizing what was the nature of the person who is really great.
I don't mean good, like me, at an amateur level, but really, really great.
And overwhelmingly, the two professional groups that seem to dominate...
are musicians and people in the math professions.
And by that I mean computer programmers, actuaries, auditors and such.
I've asked people, "What would you think Who would you think would be the best?"
And they say, oh, copy editors or history teachers or English teachers.
But, no, it's these two groups.
What I think it is is their ability to assimilate...
a lot of-of-of coded information instantly.
In other words, a piano player, like Jon Delfin...
the greatest crossword puzzler of our time.
He sits down, and he sees three staffs of music, and he can instantly play it.
He's taken all those notes, and he's absorbed what they mean instantaneously.
And if you have that kind of a cast of mind...
and then add to it a lot of, you know, a wide range of sort of ordinary...
and extraordinary information and if you can spell
you'd be a really great crossword puzzler.
Four minutes and 20 seconds. No. Four minutes and five seconds.
That's pretty good.

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