A Matter of Habit

1ACross is happy to present “A Matter of Habit” – the latest offering from “Brainiac”. This Brainiac puzzle was created by me (Sowmya Ramkumar) with the grid concept by Bhalchandra Pasupathy. The clues had inputs and feedback from Bhalchandra Pasupathy and were contributed by the following members from our facebook group 1ACross

1. Ajeesh VM
2. Aniruddh J Raman
3. Bhalchandra Pasupathy
4. Debasmita Basu
5. Dhirendra Tripathi
6. Hari Mannarsamy
7. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan
8. Manish Jhaveri
9. Manish Misra
10. Neelima Rai
11. Nemo Omen
12. Ramki Krishnan
13. Satyavrat Bondre
14. Sowmya Ramkumar
15. Srinivas Venkatesh
16. Sudarshan Jaganathan

The online interactive version can be completed and submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 30th 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 Wednesday, October 31, 2018.

Happy solving.

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

Special Instructions (Please read carefully): There are several thematic entries suggested by the title.  Each circled cell (13 in total) represents a letter from some of such entries.  Jumble these 13 letters and put them along with one other themed entry in entirety (5 letters), to derive the title of a song (4 words – 7,2,4,5), that can be loosely connected to the main title

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