Results
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Devil in the Detail – Solutions, Annotations & Results
Stats – We had an excellent response to this grid which was the first of our 1ACGrids to include Printer’s Devilry (PD) clues in addition to the regular clues, making it a bit harder for those solvers who haven’t encountered these before. In the end, we had 34 submissions, as against 57 for our last
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Letters – Solutions, Annotations & Results
Stats – What a fabulous response to the first grid of this year. You all surprised us with a whopping 57 submissions – a new record at 1ACross!. Of those who submitted, 35 managed to complete the grid with zero errors but only 15 got the maximum possible score of 250. Here’s the Puzzle NOTE
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1ACCWC – 1ACross Clue Writing Contests – 2019 – In Review
Over the last year, we have had 52 contests and we had 26 different setters winning the weekly contests, 3 more than the 23 in 2018. Right on top of the leader board is Doc Satyen Nabar who won 11 weekly contests, beating his prior record of 10! It is also remarkable that the very
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1ACGrids Final Leaderboard – 2019
We ran 23 new puzzles custom made for our solvers, fortnightly, during 2019, one short of 24 which we ran in 2018. These were set by The Oracle (5), Gussalufz (4), Agrippa (3), Mythical (2), FaSupriya,, FANtastic Three, Pixie Dust,, Andhumanssoar, Avtaar, Hasslethymi, Teezer, Drumhead and Unstoppable Kums. Thank you setters for some brilliant grids. During
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Happy Holidays – Solutions, Annotations & Results
Stats – We had a good response to the grid with 36 submissions. Of those who submitted, 32 managed to complete the grid with zero errors and 31 got the maximum possible score of 155. Here’s the completed grid. The solvers had to answer the following questions after solving the grid: (1) Identify the theme