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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
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Form of Attraction – Solutions, Annotations and Results
Stats The puzzle page was loaded 439 times. 255 visitors had a go at it and 34 solvers managed to complete and submit the grid. Of those who submitted 25 managed to get the maximum possible score of 156 including the Bonus.
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A Time to Produce Fruit – Solutions, Annotations and Results
Stats The puzzle page was loaded 626 times. 142 visitors had a go at it and 50 solvers managed to complete and submit the grid. Of those who submitted 24 managed to get the maximum possible score of 147 including the Bonus.