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1ACCWC 531 – TITULAR – Results

Kalyan hosted the previous contest and here’s his summary of the results. It was a very close contest, with just a single vote separating the second through fifth places. Here’s how the leaderboard shaped up: • 5th Place: CrypticBlah — on Football hooliganism: So-called ultra freely admits it (7) • 4th Place: Manish Jhaveri — […]

Post Updated Announcement : Writer & Director

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

1ACCWC 531 – TITULAR – Voting OPEN

We closed the contest with  just 17 clues, two less than the previous contest. 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 […]

1ACCWC 531 – TITULAR – OPEN for CLUES

This week’s contest is hosted by Kalyan Bandyopadhyay who won   1ACCWC 530 – IMPROPER – his first time win earning him a spot in the hotly contested 2025 1ACCWC leader board For 1ACCWC 531, he’s chosen “TITULAR” Here are the rules Limit of 1 clue per setter. Please Annotate your clues clearly. Please use your known […]

1ACCWC 530 – IMPROPER – Results

Abhay Phadnis hosted the previous contest and here’s his summary of the results. We closed this week’s contest with 19 clues – 1 more than the previous week. In Fifth place is CrypticBlah with ‘Off the cuff comedy mostly saucy timeless and rude (8)’ In Fourth place is Sitter with ‘This setter’s right and wrong’ […]

1ACCWC 530 – IMPROPER – Voting OPEN

We closed the contest with 19 clues, one more than the previous contest. 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 […]

Post Updated Announcement : Net Net

The solutions, annotations and results are now up on the blog. Check it out at Net Net

1ACCWC 530 – IMPROPER – OPEN for CLUES

This week’s contest is hosted by Abhay Phadnis who won   1ACCWC 529 – PERPETUITY – his first time win earning him a spot in the hotly contested 2025 1ACCWC leader board For 1ACCWC 530, he’s chosen “IMPROPER” Here are the rules Limit of 1 clue per setter. Please Annotate your clues clearly. Please use your known […]

1ACCWC 529 – PERPETUITY – Results

Sampath Srinivasan hosted the previous contest and here’s his summary of the results. We closed this week’s contest with 18 clues – 6 less than the previous week. In joint 4th place, @qpheevr and @LowdownCryptic have scored 19 points each. @qphveer for “Criminal case ends in “not guilty” for once and all”, and @LowdownCryptic for […]

Writer & Director

Good to be back on my feet again after an unexpected emergency surgery that put me out of action for three weeks. Life is slowly limping back to normalcy, as am I. Our thirteenth grid for this season is “Writer & Director” from “Aquifer”. Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on […]