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As promised, the 1AC Gridfest is here. Although, we had 28 registered participants, in the end, only 13 entries have been received from participants.

These are going to be evaluated by our judging panel of Heidi Schroeder, Ramki Krishnan and Vinod Raman, based on a number of criteria that they are working on.

Starting from tomorrow, 15th September, the grids are going to be posted daily in the blog at 9 am India time. They will be up for solving on our interactive website and can be submitted to us over the next two weeks.

All participants can choose to solve them either as soon as they are posted, or over the next few days, so that we can accommodate those who can’t get to it immediately.

No entries can be submitted after midnight, IST on 30th of September.

The grids will then be posted for solving and annotations / discussions in the facebook group, one per each day starting from Oct 1st.
Daily leaderboards based on the submitted entries will also be posted starting then.

The results announcing the best grid and the top solvers will be made on 15th October.

Both the winners (top setter and the top solver) will receive a personalized copy of our book “Cryptic Crossroads”.

By Sowmya

Sowmya is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and independent financial consultant based in the Middle East (Bahrain). She is a puzzle editor at Amuselabs. She has set over 1,300 crosswords for various publications including over 1000 mini crosswords, cryptic crosswords (under the pseudonym Hypatia for The Hindu) and themed crosswords for Cat.a.lyst (part of The Hindu Businessline). Sowmya runs the Facebook group 1Across where seasoned cruciverbalists interact while setting and solving clues. She has published three compilations of crosswords viz Cryptic Crossroads Volumes 1, 2 and 3. She Tweets cryptic clues daily @somsram

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