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1ACCWC- 1Across Clue writing contest No 367
Congratulations to Ananth Srinivasan for winning 1ACCWC 366. Ananth’s choice for the CWC is METRONOME (9) Here are the rules Limit of 1 clue per setter. Please Annotate your clue for everybody’s benefit. Clues can be posted till midnight IST on the 20th January 2022 All particpants must also vote in the contest. Voting will…
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Movie XWordle
This Movie XWordle is inspired by #Wordle, the Viral word game that’s taken social media and cruciverbalists by storm. I call it XWordle because it is a combination of a Crossword with a Wordle. Instructions All the solution words are names of Hollywood movies. You can get the answer by either solving the cryptic clue…
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Auld Lang Syne
1ACross is happy to present “Auld Lang Syne”, from “Metacryptix”, exclusively for our solvers. Welcome to Metacryptix who is making a debut with her first solo puzzle for the blog. She has earlier set “Major Missing” in Cryptic Crossroads Vol. 3. Her puzzles have also appeared in our blog with the pseudonym “Dynamic Ladies”, in…
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1ACGrids Final Leaderboard – 2021
We ran 19 new puzzles custom made for our solvers, fortnightly, during 2021, including two innovative cryptic puzzles in Tamil. Adding on the 25 grids in our Gridfest, we delivered a total of 44 original cryptic crosswords for our readers during 2021. Two puzzles each were set by Bingo, Mathrix, Afterdark and Dynamic Ladies. There…
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1AC Clue Writing Contests – 2021 Roundup
Over the last year, we had 52 weekly contests and 20 different setters winning the weekly contests, 2 more than the 18 in 2020. There were four occasions when there were ties for the Top Spot. For the fourth consecutive year, Satyen Nabar topped the leaderboard winning 10 contests. In joint second place are Amrita…