Sowmya
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1ACCWC -1ACross Clue Writing Contest no 129
Update by Sowmya -25th February 2017 – We had a spectacular response for the contest and we’re swamped by a mind boggling 123 clues from 24 setters in 36 hours, breaking all previous records set here. Like last time, 38 of our members took time to vote and while it was a struggle for me…
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With Lots of Love
“It’s time for sweet nothings!” ” The umpire at a tennis match announces “Love all”, whereas Robert Burns puts it a bit differently when he says, “O my Luve’s like a red,red rose, …“. So, why not paint the town red today? Look for love in the solved puzzle, and colour that cell red. Any…
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1ACCWC -1ACross Clue Writing Contest no 128
Update by Sowmya -12th February 2017 – We had a good response for the contest, though a bit muted compared to the previous contest. Nevertheless, we did manage to have 45 clues set by 17 setters and also managed to get 38 members to vote in the contest. For some reason, quite a few votes were recorded multiple times and we only…
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1ACCWC -1ACross Clue Writing Contest no 127
Update by Sowmya -28th January 2017 – We had a fantastic response for the contest. Not only did we have a new record of 87 clues set by 36 setters, we also managed to get 50 members to vote in the contest – our highest response thus far. Thanks to all of you who participated and submitted entries. You…
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Trim An Anagram
Here’s a note from 1ACrosser Martin DeMello, that I am happy to share with our readers.. I wrote a little tool to help me set anagram clues; sharing it here in case any of you find it useful too. It doesn’t do any sort of automated anagram generation; it just makes doing it manually a…