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1ACross is happy to present “A Leap of Faith”, from “The Oracle“, exclusively for our solvers.

Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 27th November 2019.. All those who submit entries have a chance to enter our leader board for 2019.

Annotations for the puzzle will be discussed at 1ACross on Thursday, November 28, 2019.

Happy solving.

NOTE FROM THE ORACLE 

When we take the letters of the English alphabet and their numerical position in the alphabet, we end up with:

A1 signifying the best or top quality

B2 A stealth bomber plane or Riboflavin

C3 One half of a humanoid robot from Star Wars

D4 Dark Dreams Don’t Die, a video game…

Not entirely satisfactory, isn’t it? How about switching the positions of the letter and the numeral and getting….

4D

Well, friends, have a go at this 4D puzzle in these times when 3D puzzles are a rage.

This puzzle has four dimensions as against the normal two dimensional crossword.

They are

Across

Down

Leap Across

Leap Down

Now it’s time to make a Leap of Faith…

Thanks to Sowmya for running this tiny grid and to Viresh for tweaking Exolve in no time to make this work.

Apologies for the small size of the puzzle. Hope we will see larger 4D puzzles in the future.

Here’s the link to the Interactive Version The grid needs to be done interactively due to the special nature of the puzzle. If you need it, you can get a PDF, by opening the grid and then choosing File, Print and Print to 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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