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1ACross and Mythical are happy to present “Flying Solo”, an exclusive grid for our members and readers.

The online interactive version can be completed and submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 17th February 2018.. All those who submit entries have a chance to enter our new leaderboard for 2018. Here’s the current leaderboard

Annotations for the puzzle will be discussed at 1ACross on Sunday, February 18, 2018.

Happy solving.

Here’s the link to the interactive puzzle

Here’s a link to the PDF

By Sowmya

Sowmya is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and independent financial consultant based in the Middle East (Bahrain). She is a puzzle editor at Amuselabs. She has set over 1,300 crosswords for various publications including over 1000 mini crosswords, cryptic crosswords (under the pseudonym Hypatia for The Hindu) and themed crosswords for Cat.a.lyst (part of The Hindu Businessline). Sowmya runs the Facebook group 1Across where seasoned cruciverbalists interact while setting and solving clues. She has published three compilations of crosswords viz Cryptic Crossroads Volumes 1, 2 and 3. She Tweets cryptic clues daily @somsram

4 thoughts on “Flying Solo”
  1. The submission screen is never user friendly. It would be nice to have the completed puzzle with access to all clues available on the screen, as the questions to be answered come only after clicking the submit button. The message box also partially hides the puzzle, which will make things difficult when a NINA has to be spotted, or similar.

    Nice puzzle, relaxing work-out

    1. Thanks Bhala. Since it’s a free service provided from crossword compiler, there’s not much customization possible. Once we have sufficient resources, we could possibly get some customized programming done for us to make it a seamless experience.

      In the meanwhile, here are some tips

      (1) Please save your puzzles while solving. This not only helps if your system crashes in between, but the screen can be easily called up using the link, in a separate tab to help answer questions, if you need it. It also stays in your cache till it’s cleared.
      (2) The completion message will go when you click on a different part of the puzzle.

      Glad you enjoyed the puzzle.

  2. Is it possible to send the email to all the registered participants, at the same time when you upload the crossie in your home page, as well as in fb groups like IXL?

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