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Maiden Over – Solutions
Here’s the Solutions grid Here are the Annotations: Across: 1 P+I CLUB*, 4 AGHA+ST, 8 SOCCER+R-S*+T, 9 HP, 11 MOB+ELI*+H O M E (Acrostic), 12 Telescopic, 13 SPINACH*-N A, 14 CHARISMA*, 16 SPIES*<<ODE, 18 NIGHT*, 20 KUBER-K, 21 MRS I I KNITS*, 23 REDVAN*+A, 24 &Lit – PAT + I + ENT, 25 FLY<< IMA*,…
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1ACCWC -1ACross Clue Writing Contest no 130
Update by Aashwina – 12th March 2017 – A bit of a subdued response this time because of caps on the number of clues and a tough word to clue ( I think ). Voting was subdued too ( I guess many were watching results of other voting!) – 16 of our members took time…
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Maiden Over
1ACross is happy to bring to you this grid by “The Esoteric Two”. Since its their debut grid, they have specially requested for feedback from our seasoned setters and solvers – so, do leave us any comments / suggestions for improvement in this blog post. If there is any clue that you particularly liked, do mention it in…
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With Lots of Love – Hall of Fame
Puzzle – With Lots of Love Stats: Our game post had close to 600 visits, indicating that a good number of people checked out “The Oracle’s” Valentine day special. We had 19 successful submissions from the following people, who managed to solve and submit the grid. In alphabetical order, they were Aashwina Mouli, Amrita Majumdar, Chandrasekhar, Chatur…
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With Lots of Love – Solutions
Here’s the Solutions grid Colouring the “O”s in the grid, and also all white islets in the red sea (the blocks in-between), yielded a giant red heart. Find the shape again in the grid and colour it red” was the instruction to identify that the solution for 44D was “Heart” and to colour that answer…