Contest

  • 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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  • Manama Memoirs – Results

    Congrats to “Karthik Balagopal” who was the winner of the “Manama Memoirs” crossword contest that we had done exclusively for Gulf Weekly readers. The contest had a good response with 29 submissions from across the world. Karthik was presented with a personalized copy of “Cryptic Crossroads Volume 2” during our  cryptic crossword workshop “Cracking Cryptics”,

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  • Manama Memoirs

    Due to unavoidable personal circumstances Mythical’s grid that was scheduled today cannot be published this week. It will instead be published next Sunday. Meanwhile, we are happy to share the special Bahrain themed grid that appeared along with this article http://www.gulfweekly.com/Articles/41103/Cryptic-on-the-move in this week’s Gulf Weekly Magazine Here is the Interactive Version  –  http://1across.org/1ACGrids/GW.html. Anyone

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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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  • 1ACGridfest – The Results

    Thanks to all of you who participated in the 1ACross Gridfest to celebrate our third anniversary. In all, the following 13 people participated in setting grids for the competition. 1. Chatur Vasi 2. Brian Dungate 3. Col. Deepak Gopinath 4. Kishore Rao 5. Sreeni Srinivasan 6. Sridhar Vedantham 7. Mona Sogal 8. Supriya Mithal 9.

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