Among the reams of ancient gnostic texts discovered at Nag Hammadi, a fragment of cryptic crossword still baffles scholars.
7 Down: "Cranky Alexandrian scuppers early boat for deep thinker (6)"
If you ask me, the obvious solution is Origen. How did I arrive at this conclusion? Well, Origen has the right number of letters and a good selection of vowels. Furthermore, there are no other surviving clues to prove me wrong if those answers don't fit.
This is the approach to scholarship I learnt from Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ralph and I call it self reliance. We rule.
Of course, most academics will dismiss my claims out of hand. I lack the correct credentials, apparently, for solving gnostic acrostics. Nor have I been initiated into the pneumatic mysteries of the Sacred Order of Seventh Book of Puzzles, based on the Gospel of Brainiac the Compiler.
Professor Ali Baba of the Forty Sheaves Institute of Old Paper even told me to stick to Pythagorean Sudoko. The arrogance of these so-called Biblical scholars is breathtaking.
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