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Post Updated Announcement : Forest Folk

The solutions, annotations and results are now up on the blog. Check it out at Forest Folk Also don’t miss the solving video in the blog post and the searchable dynamic leaderboard for 2025 in the 1ACGrids – Hall of Fame

Solve as you go – Mind Enthusiast’s HT puzzle

Here’s my latest video, attempting today’s Cryptic Crossword in The Hindustan Times. The puzzle is by Mind Enthusiast, who has also set several puzzles in 1Across as “The Oracle” Check out this video and others, Like or Subscribe at https://www.youtube.com/@sowmya_ram

1ACCWC 541 – OPULENCE – Voting OPEN

We closed the contest with  20 clues, five less than the previous contests. 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 ‘Shortlisted’ Button to see […]

1ACCWC 541 – OPULENCE – OPEN for CLUES

This week’s contest is hosted by Amrita Majumdar who won  1ACCWC 540 – EXPLICIT – her first win in this year’s  1ACCWC taking her to the #14 spot in the hotly contested 2025 1ACCWC leader board For 1ACCWC 541, she’s chosen “OPULENCE” Here are the rules Limit of 1 clue per setter. Please Annotate your clues […]

1ACCWC 540 – EXPLICIT – Results

Veera (S.V.Raghavan) hosted the previous contest and here’s his summary of the results. Seems the clues theme mostly on sleaze! We have ALP in 5th place with 15 points for “Graphic old film featuring a bit of LGBTQ+sex” In fourth place is CrypticBlah scoring 18 points for “Clearly stated without some convoluted complexities” At place […]

1ACCWC 540 – EXPLICIT – Voting OPEN

Great response and we closed the contest with  26 clues, one more than the previous contests. 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 ‘Shortlisted’ […]

Forest Folk

Our eighteenth grid for this season is “Forest Folk” from “Aquifer”. You can check other grids from Aquifer here. Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 17th October 2025. All those who submit entries have a chance to enter our leader board for 2025. Annotations for the puzzle […]

1ACCWC 540 – EXPLICIT – OPEN for CLUES

This week’s contest is hosted by Veera (S.V.Raghavan) who won  1ACCWC 539 – DELICATE – his second win in 1ACCWC taking him to the #15 spot in the hotly contested 2025 1ACCWC leader board For 1ACCWC 540, he’s chosen “EXPLICIT” Here are the rules Limit of 1 clue per setter. Please Annotate your clues clearly. Please […]

1ACCWC 539 – DELICATE – Results

LowdownCryptic hosted the previous contest and here’s his summary of the results. We had 25 clues and 28 voters this week. While the majority of clues featured an anagram, 3 of the top 5 clues did not. VMA Nair finishes 5th with 20 points: Elegant food shop with endless supply Manish Jhaveri finds 4th with […]

Post Updated Announcement : 16C – SpurTed

The solutions, annotations and results are now up on the blog. Check it out at 16C – SpurTed Also don’t miss the new searchable leaderboard for 2025 in the 1ACGrids – Hall of Fame