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Cut Corners
Happy New Year to all our readers. We are happy to start a new season of 1ACGrids with “Cut Corners” from “Mathrix”, exclusively for our solvers. Incidentally, the setter Mathrix, aka Ian VanderSchee celebrates his birthday tomorrow. On behalf of our blog and solvers, we wish him a terrific birthday. Answers can be submitted by…
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1AC Clue Writing Contests – 2022 Roundup
Over the last year, we had 47 weekly contests and 20 different setters winning the weekly contests, broadly similar to 2021. Madhusudan H had the maximum wins (6), followed by first timer Ganesh Raman (5), Dr. Nabar (4) and Textrous (4). There was only one occasion when there was a tie for the Top Spot.…
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1ACCWC 412 – PLUCKY Results
We had 25 clues and 26 voters. Great hosting by Madhu this week and here’s his summary of the results… Here is the writeup for final results Thanks to all who submitted their clues and voted. Two clues ran neck and neck to the top of the table. The eventual winning clue from N Anantakrishnan…
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Bidding Sequence
1ACross is happy to present “Bidding Sequence”, from “Bingo”, exclusively for our solvers. Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 6th Jan. 2023. All those who submit entries have a chance to enter our new leader board for 2022. NOTE: Since this is the last puzzle for the…
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1ACCWC 411 – PROPAGANDA Results
We had 36 clues and 37 voters. Great hosting by Anant this week and here’s his summary of the results… Thank you to all participants for clueing and voting. Without much hype, here are the results: The winner by a good margin is Madhusudan with 40 points for his clue – A dangerous app spreads…