To take advantage of my momentum, I went ahead and found the global distribution of letters across all puzzles!
The # is a black box, and as you'd expect it's leading the pack, although it's a lot closer to A and E than I would have guessed. There's also one poor little Ñ hanging out there at the end, I should figure out where he came from and whether it's a bug...
Here's the English Letter Frequency graph from Wikipedia
T's seem to be very strongly under represented in the Crossword puzzles. More interesting maths to come soon.
The data set is here, I'll update the post with a live Google Chart after I've gotten some sleep.
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