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February 13, 2020

Bar Bar Dekho – Solutions, Annotations & Results

Stats – We had an excellent response to this grid with 49 submissions, as against 34 for our last grid!.  Of those who submitted  42 managed to complete the grid with zero errors, though only 24 got the maximum possible
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Published on February 13, 2020 08:43

February 1, 2020

Bar Bar Dekko

1ACross is happy to present “Bar Bar Dekko”, from “Gussalufz“, exclusively for our solvers. Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 12th February 2020. All those who submit entries have a chance to
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Published on February 01, 2020 21:30

January 31, 2020

Devil in the Detail – Solutions, Annotations & Results

Stats – We had an excellent response to this grid which was the first of our 1ACGrids to include Printer’s Devilry (PD) clues in addition to the regular clues, making it a bit harder for those solvers who haven’t  encountered
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Published on January 31, 2020 19:56

January 18, 2020

The Devil in the Detail

1ACross is happy to present with “The Devil in the Detail”, from “Avtaar”, exclusively for our solvers. Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 29th January 2020.. All those who submit entries have
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Published on January 18, 2020 21:30

January 16, 2020

Letters – Solutions, Annotations & Results

Stats – What a fabulous response to the first grid of this year. You all surprised us with a whopping 57 submissions – a new record at 1ACross!.  Of those who submitted,  35 managed to complete the grid with zero
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Published on January 16, 2020 02:22

January 14, 2020

1ACCWC – 1ACross Clue Writing Contests – 2019 – In Review

Over the last year, we have had 52 contests and we had 26 different setters winning the weekly contests, 3 more than the 23 in 2018. Right on top of the leader board is Doc Satyen Nabar who won 11
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Published on January 14, 2020 23:32

January 4, 2020

Letters

Happy New Year to all our readers. 1ACross is happy to kick off a brand new puzzling season with “Letters”, from “The Oracle“, exclusively for our solvers. Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before
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Published on January 04, 2020 21:30

1ACGrids Final Leaderboard – 2019

We ran 23 new puzzles custom made for our solvers, fortnightly, during 2019, one short of 24 which we ran in 2018. These were set by The Oracle (5), Gussalufz (4), Agrippa (3), Mythical (2), FaSupriya,, FANtastic Three, Pixie Dust,, Andhumanssoar, 
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Published on January 04, 2020 11:25

January 3, 2020

Happy Holidays – Solutions, Annotations & Results

Stats – We had a good response to the grid with 36 submissions.  Of those who submitted,  32 managed to complete the grid with zero errors and 31 got the maximum possible score of 155. Here’s the completed grid. The
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Published on January 03, 2020 08:08

December 14, 2019

Happy Holidays

1ACross is happy to present “Happy Holidays”, from “FANtastic Three”, exclusively for our solvers. Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 2nd January 2020.. All those who submit entries have a chance to
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Published on December 14, 2019 21:30