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Back to Square One
Our second grid for this season is “Back to Square One” by Metacryptix. Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD Friday, 9th February 2024. All those who submit entries have a chance to enter our leader board for 2024. Annotations for the puzzle will be posted in the…
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1ACCWC 460 – CELEBRATION – Results
This week’s contest had 24 clues and 27 voters. Thanks to Arshad Nadamal, Mona Sogal and Saurabh Upadhyay who took time to vote though they did not set clues in this contest. I was hosting this week and here’s the summary of the results. Celebrations were on in full swing but ultimately, there was a…
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1ACCWC 459 – A CLEAN SLATE – Results
This week’s contest had 21 clues and 25 voters. Thanks to Bhalchandra Pasupathy, Mona Sogal and Ratna Rao who took time to vote though they did not set clues in this contest. Dr. Satyen Nabar was our host and here’s his summary of the results. A riveting neck-to-neck contest between 5 clues providing a refreshing…
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Family Reunion
Happy New Year to all our readers. We are happy to start a new season of 1ACGrids with “Family Reunion” from “Mathrix”, exclusively for our solvers. Incidentally, the setter Mathrix, aka Ian VanderSchee celebrates his birthday on the 9th. On behalf of our blog and solvers, we wish him a terrific birthday. Answers can be…
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1AC Clue Writing Contests – 2023 Roundup
Over the last year, we had 46 weekly contests and 18 different setters winning the weekly contests, broadly similar to the previous years. Satyen Nabar had the maximum wins (14), followed by Textrous (6) and Ramki (4). There were two occasions when there was a tie for the Top Spot. As in previous years, Dr.…