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  • An Addagram a day – Solutions, Annotations & Results

    Stats – We had a decent response to the grid with 29 submissions, exactly the same number as last time. Of those who submitted, all 29 managed to complete the grid with zero errors but only 2 got the maximum possible score of 158. Here’s the completed grid. The solvers had to answer the following questions

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  • Results Can you solve this clue? -22

    Results Can you solve this clue? -22

    We had a great response to yesterday’s clue and 32 people managed to register their right answers in the blog, still below our current record of 42. Congrats to Crypt Ella (our first one in), Raja Venkatasubramanian, Ranjani Srikanth, Venkatraghavan S, R Bhashyam Iyengar, Sandhya Paruchuri, Shrikanth T, Max Jackson, Joyce de Silva (welcome to

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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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  • An Addagram a day

    1ACross is happy to present “An Addagram a day”,  from “Unstoppable Kums”, exclusively for our solvers. Please read the instructions very carefully. The grid has 5 sets of “Addagrams”, indicated by A to E at the beginning of each clue. An Addagram set is a collection of words of lengths n, n+1, n+2 and so

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  • Metamorphosis 913  – Solutions, Annotations & Results

    Metamorphosis 913 – Solutions, Annotations & Results

    Stats – We had a good response to this tough grid with 29 submissions. Of those who submitted, only 6 had managed to complete the grid with zero errors, of whom 5 got the full score. Here’s the completed grid. If you rotate the Grid by 270 degrees, you can see the “ESCHER” spelt out (highlighted

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