Cryptics

  • AL’s Trick

    1ACross is happy to present “AL’s Trick”, from “Gussalufz“, exclusively for our solvers. Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 13th November 2019.. All those who submit entries have a chance to enter our leader board for 2019. Annotations for the puzzle will be discussed at 1ACross on…

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  • Manama Memoirs

    Due to unavoidable personal circumstances Mythical’s grid that was scheduled today cannot be published this week. It will instead be published next Sunday. Meanwhile, we are happy to share the special Bahrain themed grid that appeared along with this article http://www.gulfweekly.com/Articles/41103/Cryptic-on-the-move in this week’s Gulf Weekly Magazine Here is the Interactive Version  –  http://1across.org/1ACGrids/GW.html. Anyone…

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  • A B Cryptics -3 – Cool Charade Clues

    Each of these posts are intended to provide simple explanations / introduction to cryptic crosswords. Each post would have A – an answer to a general question on cryptics, B – an explanation of a clue type and C – A Sample clue. A – What are barred and blocked crossword grids? A blocked grid…

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  • A B Cryptics -2 – Bring Bats Back

    Each of these posts are intended to provide simple explanations / introduction to cryptic crosswords. Each post would have A – an answer to a general question on cryptics, B – an explanation of a clue type and C – A Sample clue. A – How are Cryptic Crosswords useful for kids? The following are…

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  • Can you solve this clue? – 1

    Can you solve this clue? If you got the answer, leave a comment in the blog. If you wish to know more about our book, please check out https://1across.org/book/cc2/

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