D-PUZZLE-0 step 3: crossword propagation as Cartesian-addressed masking, four arms, cui-bono ablation

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Step 3 of D-PUZZLE-0. The question: once a crossword is compiled, is propagation the same substrate operation as Sudoku's (mask → intersect → popcount → promote → expose → adjacent masks → repeat)? And which physical representation of that logic is best on identical puzzles?

Inventory first, no new primitive

need	existing facility
cell (WHERE)	Morton8x8::from_xy(col, row)
slot position	FacetTier { hi: slot, lo: offset }.as_u16()
crossing	equality of cell codes. The contract stores no topology, so this is compiled once into two u16 lanes: cross[slot:offset] and occupant[cell].
word (WHAT)	DeepNSM-v2 PaletteVocab::from_frequency_ranked, WordId = u16
masks	ndarray::simd::{mask_and_assign, popcount_batch_u64}
letter	no canonical Moore symbol space exists, so the probe declares a local MooreSymbol8 reading

MaskOp::Gather (#1383) is not needed: elimination is an AND inside one WordId space. There is no contract change. deepnsm-v2 becomes a dev-dependency of cognitive-shader-driver; its guid-v3-tail feature is already a contract default.

Encodings

• MooreSymbol8: 0 = unknown, 1–26 = a–z, 27 ä, 28 ö, 29 ü, 30 ß, 31–255 reserved. Accented letters fold to their base letter (cliché → cliche).
• English vocabulary: academic_20k.csv built exactly as genre_shapes builds it, giving 18,555 ids. vocab.rs quotes 18,559 distinct surfaces; four collapse when lowercased.
• German vocabulary: the DeReKo-2014 top 20k, read from DEREKO_PATH at run time only. It is CC BY-NC 3.0, so nothing derived from it is committed.
• CE64 bits 59..63 carry state only: GIVEN 20 / FORCED 21 / ENTAILED 22 / CANDIDATE 4. Slot and word live in separate lanes.

Four arms on the same puzzles

The four arms are A token, B Cartesian board, C literal strings (the step 2/2b method) and D hybrid. Every run asserts that all four reach the same placed words, and that A, B and D leave the same candidate masks.

Every arm, the literal one included, gets one untimed warm-up and then the best of 5 rotated runs. The literal arm's word list is built once per language, outside the timing. The table gives the median over puzzles, in µs (final run, 2bdb50b):

	A token	D hybrid	B Cartesian	C literal
EN 5×5	3.0	2.9	5.1	1,045
DE 5×5	2.3	2.3	3.7	986

• Routing letters through the Morton board (D) costs nothing measurable over A.
• B does about twice the ANDs and holds about 10× fewer bytes: 2.4 KB against 23–25 KB.
• Strings (C) are about 350–430× slower than A.

Filter: a mask AND chain costs 543–775 ns per pattern; scanning the spell lane directly costs 36,000–42,000 ns.

Shared fold: over about 1M claims per language, every count is equal three ways, at the same per-edge costs as Sudoku (filter 0.34–0.35 ns/edge).

Creation is the limit, not solving. No word may be used twice in one fill. Under that rule, boards are made at 5×5 in both languages, and from 7×7 to 21×21 none are. Every miss is a failed fill within the budget, never the uniqueness check. An earlier run without the rule made a few 7×7 boards, but each of them reused a word.

Cui bono

Each given is removed in turn, then the fixed point and the uniqueness count are re-run. Every given is classified as Redundant, ShortcutOnly, SilentlyNecessary or Necessary. These are readouts only, with no new state. At 5×5:

	Redundant	ShortcutOnly	SilentlyNecessary	Necessary
EN (116 givens)	28	40	0	48
DE (74 givens)	14	25	0	35

Falsifiers (12 disable runs, D1–D8 and D10–D13, each red)

• arm A ignores crossings;
• letters a and b swapped in the codebook;
• the index drops offset 0;
• no promotion at popcount 1;
• only the first crossing is processed;
• zero candidates is not a contradiction;
• the language gate is removed;
• word bits are written into the edge;
• crossings are rediscovered from the cell lane instead of the compiled lanes;
• the ablation ignores uniqueness;
• the ablation removes nothing;
• the no-repeat rule is removed.

(The merged board entry says 13; the correct count is 12. The fix is a one-line follow-up.)

Review fixes

• Codex P1: the literal arm is now timed under the same protocol, with a prebuilt word list (2e54d03).
• CodeRabbit: fills may not repeat a word (2bdb50b). This changed the 7×7 result.

Also in this PR

• Post-merge board records for D-PUZZLE-0 step 1: Sudoku at scale on the EpistemicState5 population algebra #1382 and D-PUZZLE-0 step 2: crosswords on the same population algebra as Sudoku #1384.

Open

• Creating puzzles beyond 5×5 with these vocabularies; next, try a crossword answer list at runtime.
• Whether MooreSymbol8, possibly with a MooreLearn8 companion, becomes a canonical value tenant. That is a contract decision this PR does not take.

Entry: .claude/board/entries/2026-10-07-puzzle-0-crossword-mask-propagation.md.

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This change adds a crossword propagation probe. It builds English and optional German vocabularies, compares four solver representations, generates and analyzes puzzles, and records benchmark results and given-removal outcomes.

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Crossword propagation probe

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Vocabulary and puzzle encoding crates/cognitive-shader-driver/examples/crossword_mask_propagation_probe.rs, crates/cognitive-shader-driver/Cargo.toml	Defines the probe’s symbol encoding and vocabularies, validates and generates grids, and compiles slot, cell, crossing, and occupant lanes. Tests cover symbol encoding, vocabulary populations, and grid validation.
Propagation implementations crates/cognitive-shader-driver/examples/crossword_mask_propagation_probe.rs	Implements token-mask, hybrid, Cartesian, and literal solvers. Tests exercise propagation constraints, contradictions, claim encoding, and solver agreement.
Puzzle creation and claim analysis crates/cognitive-shader-driver/examples/crossword_mask_propagation_probe.rs	Adds bounded puzzle filling and uniqueness checks, given-removal analysis, and claim emission. Tests cover ablation classifications and claim-fold queries.
Benchmark execution and records crates/cognitive-shader-driver/examples/crossword_mask_propagation_probe.rs, crates/cognitive-shader-driver/examples/README.md, .claude/board/entries/2026-10-07-puzzle-0-crossword-mask-propagation.md, .claude/board/entries/README.md, .claude/board/STATUS_BOARD.md, .claude/board/LATEST_STATE.md, .claude/board/PR_ARC_INVENTORY.md, crates/cognitive-shader-driver/Cargo.toml	Registers and documents the example, runs solver and claim-lane benchmarks, and records probe results and limitations in the board entry and indexes.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Probe
  participant LexiconBuilder
  participant PuzzleGenerator
  participant SolverArms
  participant ClaimFold
  Probe->>LexiconBuilder: Build English and optional German vocabularies
  Probe->>PuzzleGenerator: Generate puzzles and compile lanes
  Probe->>SolverArms: Run four propagation implementations on puzzles
  SolverArms-->>Probe: Return fixed points and timings
  Probe->>ClaimFold: Emit crossword claims

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This adds a standalone crossword benchmark example and its documentation. Generated puzzles may contain a repeated word, and the ablation statistics can include those fills. That is a small measurement-accuracy follow-up rather than a production risk.

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