This Halloween, ‘The Oracle” encountered a coven of witches, some sundry wizards, diviners, augurs and soothsayers. Having read tea leaves, coffee grounds, entrails of myriad creatures, and tons of other stuff – they instructed “The Oracle” to make a puzzle and to put this one across to you all..So, “Welcome to the Party..”
Submissions of the completed grid should be in the form of a Screenshot and should be emailed to 1acrossgp@gmail.com before midnight ( IST) on Sunday 6th November 2016. Results will be declared and annotations discussed at 1ACross on the 8th of November 2016.
The first all correct entry will be declared the winner. Names of all who submit fully correct entries will go in to our Hall of fame. The setter’s decision will be final and binding.
Please refrain from discussions on the puzzle during this time, so that you do not spoil it for people in various time zones….
You can solve the puzzle here
The Link can also be accessed Here and the PDF Version Here
Click here for the Acrosslite file
The moment I saw ‘product’ I got a shock! I hope this is not a brand crossword as I will be completely at a loss.
Welcome to the party..The Oracle doesn’t do brands:)
Nice work Soms!
Thanks LV
Great fun!
Nice fare on a saturday morning here in New York ending to twin grandkids. ! thanks. I enjoyed it.
Nice CW Soumyaji. Enjoyed solving it and submitted yesterday. Hope to see my name in the Hall of fame. 🙂
Thanks MB. Have you guessed the identity of The Oracle? It is someone well known to THC solvers:) Also, have you spotted the theme and the twist in the puzzle yet..
Now that u say the puzzle is a themed one, I will have a re-look at the solutions!
Have no idea about the identity of The Oracle 🙁
It’s Incognito
Nice xword..thanks.. unable to fully parse 22a and 1d.. someone can?
We will be posting the solutions here on 8th. Discussions on the puzzle and annotations will be on at the FB group on 8th.