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1ACross is happy to present “24 x 25” – the latest offering from “Brainiac”. This Brainiac puzzle was compiled by me (Sowmya Ramkumar) with the grid conceptualized and filled by Viresh Ratnakar and clues contributed by the following members from our facebook group 1ACross

1. Aruna Chakravarthy Dhall
2. Ashley Smith
3. Brian Dungate
4. Crypt Ella
5. Darren Redfern
6. Debbie Manber Kupfer
7. Faten Ismail
8. Ganesh Nayak
9. Harry Shrikant
10. Jayanth Ramesh
11. Martin DeMello
12. Nishad Musthafa
13. Ratnakar Sonthi
14. Sowmya Ramkumar
15. Usha Mehta
16. Viresh Ratnakar

The online interactive version can be completed and submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 6th October 2018.. All those who submit entries have a chance to enter our leaderboard for 2018.

Here’s the current leaderboard

Annotations for the puzzle will be discussed at 1ACross on Sunday, October 7, 2018.

Happy solving.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO SAVE, TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ASKED AT THE END OF THE PUZZLE

Hidden herein lie two companions of 24×25 in Rome…

Here’s the link to the Interactive Puzzle
Here’s a link to the PDF

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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