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January 23, 2022
Stars and Wars
1ACross is happy to present “Stars and Wars”, from “Aquifer”, exclusively for our solvers. Welcome to Aquifer who is making a debut with his first puzzle. Aquifer is the pseudonym of Kabir Firaque, who has been part of The Indian Express editorial team since 2008. A civil engineer by education, he writes on science, mathematics, […]
January 21, 2022
1ACCWC 367 – METRONOME Voting OPEN
We received 29 clues this week and Voting is OPEN Ananth, our host this week has created a much improved voting mechanism which now allows the voters to shortlist clues and validate voting points. Here is the Link to the VOTING FORM Please cast your votes on or before Midnight IST 22nd Jan. 2022
January 20, 2022
Trading Places – XWordle 3
This is my third #XWordle. Inspired by the viral word game #Wordle, a #XWordle is a combination of a Crossword AND a #Wordle. The Story There is pandemonium at the Zoo since the animals have escaped from their cages (marked 1-5). One animal is still in its own cage but the other two pairs have […]
January 19, 2022
Movie XWordle – Solutions
Stats: The puzzle page had over 600 views and nearly 300 people attempted it. We had 60 solvers submitting their solution here. All except 1 got it correct. Here are the solutions and annotations 1 Couple of soldiers escort student to movie (5) GI G(L)I GI – Soldier, L – Student 2 Mark offers nothing […]
January 16, 2022
1ACCWC- 1Across Clue writing contest No 367
Congratulations to Ananth Srinivasan for winning 1ACCWC 366. Ananth’s choice for the CWC is METRONOME (9) Here are the rules Limit of 1 clue per setter. Please Annotate your clue for everybody’s benefit. Clues can be posted till midnight IST on the 20th January 2022 All particpants must also vote in the contest. Voting will […]
January 13, 2022
Movie XWordle
This Movie XWordle is inspired by #Wordle, the Viral word game that’s taken social media and cruciverbalists by storm. I call it XWordle because it is a combination of a Crossword with a Wordle. Instructions All the solution words are names of Hollywood movies. You can get the answer by either solving the cryptic clue […]
January 8, 2022
Auld Lang Syne
1ACross is happy to present “Auld Lang Syne”, from “Metacryptix”, exclusively for our solvers. Welcome to Metacryptix who is making a debut with her first solo puzzle for the blog. She has earlier set “Major Missing” in Cryptic Crossroads Vol. 3. Her puzzles have also appeared in our blog with the pseudonym “Dynamic Ladies”, in […]
January 7, 2022
1ACGrids Final Leaderboard – 2021
We ran 19 new puzzles custom made for our solvers, fortnightly, during 2021, including two innovative cryptic puzzles in Tamil. Adding on the 25 grids in our Gridfest, we delivered a total of 44 original cryptic crosswords for our readers during 2021. Two puzzles each were set by Bingo, Mathrix, Afterdark and Dynamic Ladies. There […]
January 3, 2022
1AC Clue Writing Contests – 2021 Roundup
Over the last year, we had 52 weekly contests and 20 different setters winning the weekly contests, 2 more than the 18 in 2020. There were four occasions when there were ties for the Top Spot. For the fourth consecutive year, Satyen Nabar topped the leaderboard winning 10 contests. In joint second place are Amrita […]
December 29, 2021
Form of Attraction – Solutions, Annotations and Results
Stats The puzzle page was loaded 439 times. 255 visitors had a go at it and 34 solvers managed to complete and submit the grid. Of those who submitted 25 managed to get the maximum possible score of 156 including the Bonus. Form of Attraction<<< Click Here for the Puzzle Post Here is the solution grid: NOTES: […]
