Sowmya
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Maiden Over
1ACross is happy to bring to you this grid by “The Esoteric Two”. Since its their debut grid, they have specially requested for feedback from our seasoned setters and solvers – so, do leave us any comments / suggestions for improvement in this blog post. If there is any clue that you particularly liked, do mention it in
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With Lots of Love – Hall of Fame
Puzzle – With Lots of Love Stats: Our game post had close to 600 visits, indicating that a good number of people checked out “The Oracle’s” Valentine day special. We had 19 successful submissions from the following people, who managed to solve and submit the grid. In alphabetical order, they were Aashwina Mouli, Amrita Majumdar, Chandrasekhar, Chatur
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With Lots of Love – Solutions
Here’s the Solutions grid Colouring the “O”s in the grid, and also all white islets in the red sea (the blocks in-between), yielded a giant red heart. Find the shape again in the grid and colour it red” was the instruction to identify that the solution for 44D was “Heart” and to colour that answer
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1ACCWC -1ACross Clue Writing Contest no 129
Update by Sowmya -25th February 2017 – We had a spectacular response for the contest and we’re swamped by a mind boggling 123 clues from 24 setters in 36 hours, breaking all previous records set here. Like last time, 38 of our members took time to vote and while it was a struggle for me
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With Lots of Love
“It’s time for sweet nothings!” ” The umpire at a tennis match announces “Love all”, whereas Robert Burns puts it a bit differently when he says, “O my Luve’s like a red,red rose, …“. So, why not paint the town red today? Look for love in the solved puzzle, and colour that cell red. Any