Sowmya

  • 2’s Company – Hall of Fame

    Puzzle – 2’s Company Stats:  Our game post had 370 visits. We received 11 submissions from the following people.. Amrita Majumdar, Brian Dungate, Chatur Vasi, Col. Deepak Gopinath, Ganesh Nayak. Kishore Rao, Narayan Mandyam, Ramki Krishnan, Sandhya Jagadish, Vignesh Kiran, Vinayak Rao Ekbote (Names in alphabetical order) 8 of these solvers spotted the NINA correctly and also identified that Samurai…

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  • 2’s Company – Solutions

    Here’s the solutions grid The NINA is colored in Yellow.  It is the first names of the two setters – MONA and SUPRIYA The pseudonym “SAMURAI PONY” is an anagram of these two names.     Here are the Annotations: Across: 7 IMP+(-F)ORTUNE, 8 Telescopic, 9 CAT+LOG+U+E(-xcept), 10 (-y)OGURT*, 12 LEOPAR(-D)*, 13 T+ALI+S+MAN, 16 N(LOVE*)+LA, 19 Spoonerism…

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  • 2’s Company

    1ACross is happy to bring to you this grid by “The Samurai Pony”.  Since its their debut grid, the duo who set it have specially requested for feedback from our seasoned setters and solvers – so, do leave us any comments / suggestions for improvement in this blog post. The puzzle will be open for solving until…

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  • The Autograph – Solutions

    Here’s the Solutions grid The Oracle’s NINA is colored in Yellow and it runs across the top and the bottom rows (so that you can’t say you  can’t see it) The Oracle’s so-called “Autograph” is in the middle in Red. Its an Ambigram (reads the same even if you turn the puzzle upside down) The Oracle’s Self-portrait is…

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  • The Autograph – Hall of Fame

    Puzzle – The Autograph Stats:  Our game post had nearly 200  visits. We received 12 submissions from the following people who managed to successfully solve and submit the grid. In alphabetical order, they were Ashit Hegde, Chatur Vasi, Deepak Gopinath, Ganesh Nayak, Mona Sogal,  Neelima Rai, Ramki Krishnan, Sandhya, SSv, Supriya Mithal, Vasant Srinivasan and Vinayak Rao Ekbote Congrats to each…

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