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1ACCWC 487 – TIPTOE – OPEN for CLUES

This week’s contest is hosted by Kalyan Bandyopadhyay, who won   1ACCWC 486 – EGOMANIAC and is currently at the eleventh spot in the hotly contested  1ACCWC – Season 2024 leaderboard For 1ACCWC 487, he’s chosen “TIPTOE” Here are the rules Limit of 1 clue per setter. Please Annotate your clues clearly. Please use your known […]

Celebration & Cerebration – Solutions, Annotations and Results

Stats: The puzzle page was loaded 890 times. 76 visitors had a go at it.  49 solvers completed the grid though only 46 solvers completed both the grid and the bonus forms. The remaining 27 solved partly. 33 solvers got the full score. Celebration & Cerebration<<< Click Here for the Puzzle Post Here is the solution […]

Celebration & Cerebration

Happy Anniversary to 1 Across. We are celebrating this with a jumbo grid, our fifteenth grid for this season, titled “Celebration & Cerebration”. PREAMBLE All clues generate an extra letter of wordplay; in order, the extra letters spell a quotation (Ten words). The completed grid has a thematic entry (1 word). CREDITS This Grid was […]

1ACCWC 486 – EGOMANIAC – Results

Textrous hosted last week and here’s his summary of the results. Honorable mentions to Sparsh Sinha, Adman_i, Ramki Krishnan, Satyen Nabar, Nathan Townsend and Venkatesan P for featuring among the top 10. In 5th place is N Anantakrishnan with 19 points for “For example, on reflection, NaMo basically is another classic narcissist” In 4th place, […]

XY – Solutions, Annotations and Results

Stats: The puzzle page was loaded 340 times. 57 visitors had a go at it.  47 solvers completed both the puzzle and bonus form. The remaining solved it partly. 34 solvers got the full score. XY<<< Click Here for the Puzzle Post Here is the solution grid: BONUS QUESTIONS: Q1: Find a phrase hidden in the […]

1ACCWC 486 – EGOMANIAC – Voting OPEN

We got a muted response and closed the contest with 17 clues, one less than last week. Voting is now OPEN CLICK HERE to cast your votes All participants who set clues are expected to vote. You are not allowed to vote for your own clue Click on clues to shortlist them, click on the […]

1ACCWC 486 – EGOMANIAC – OPEN for CLUES

This week’s contest is hosted by Textrous, who won   1ACCWC 485 – SPEARHEAD and is currently at second place in the hotly contested  1ACCWC – Season 2024 leaderboard For 1ACCWC 486, he’s chosen “EGOMANIAC” Here are the rules Limit of 1 clue per setter. Please Annotate your clues clearly. Please use your known names / […]

1ACCWC 485 – SPEARHEAD – Results

@LowdownCryptic hosted last week and here’s his summary of the results. We had 18 clues and 20 voters this week. Madhup Tewari and Mona Sogal were the two voters who hadn’t entered. Textrous was the first to submit a clue and was in the lead throughout the voting. This time, the hare managed to win […]

1ACCWC 485 – SPEARHEAD – Voting OPEN

We got a muted response and closed the contest with 18 clues, two less than last week. Voting is now OPEN CLICK HERE to cast your votes All participants who set clues are expected to vote. You are not allowed to vote for your own clue Click on clues to shortlist them, click on the […]

1ACCWC 485 – SPEARHEAD – OPEN for CLUES

This week’s contest is hosted by @LowdownCryptic, who won   1ACCWC 484 – TROPHY and is currently placed seventh  on the 1ACCWC – Season 2024 leaderboard For 1ACCWC 485, he’s chosen “SPEARHEAD” Here are the rules Limit of 1 clue per setter. Please Annotate your clues clearly. Please use your known names / Twitter handles and […]