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Nice Grid
Nice grid with a good balance of challenge in the clues. I enjoyed solving this one.

This weeks contest is hosted by Aashirwad For 1ACCWC 556, the chosen word is CROWN Here are the rules Limit of 1 clue per setter. Please Annotate your clues clearly. Please login to participate. You can use your wordpress/gmail account for login but please use one account consistently so that your performance can be tracked for…

Thanks to Ramki Krishnan for hosting the contest. The contest elicited some clever ties in common cryptic surfaces: “on the house”, “giveaways,” “handouts,” “no charge,” etc. were often used definitions. Wordplay in several clues used beer/fries), insects (BEE), chips/fries, or anagrams/containers involving those elements. Voter comments focused on indirect anagrams, same-root issues (using “free” directly…

#1ACGrids series presents our third grid for this year “Money Matters” from “Veeyares”, exclusively for our solvers. Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 6h Mar. 2026. All those who submit entries have a chance to enter our leader board for 2026. Annotations for the puzzle will be…
Great grid, thanks