Crosswords

  • 1ACGrids 2025 – Puzzle roundup

    1ACGrids 2025 – Puzzle roundup

    This year, we published 23 brand-new, custom-crafted puzzles for our solvers, surpassing the 22 puzzles we featured in 2024. Released fortnightly, these puzzles kept our community engaged and entertained throughout the year. A Special Year for Our Setters 2025 was truly remarkable as even more setters who had set their first crosswords on our blog

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  • Ladies First  – Solutions, Annotations and Results

    Ladies First – Solutions, Annotations and Results

    Stats The puzzle page was loaded over 955 times. 86 visitors had a go at it and 55 solvers managed to complete and submit both the puzzle and bonus forms.  Of those who submitted, only 15 managed to get the full score.

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  • Ladies First

    Ladies First

    On International Women’s Day 2025, 1ACross is happy to present “Ladies First”, a special puzzle put together with several talented cruciverbalists from across the globe. Harriet Beecher Stowe once said, “Women are the real architects of society.”  On this Women’s Day, let’s celebrate the strength, wisdom, and compassion that women, the architects of our society,

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  • 1ACGrids 2024 – A Year of Puzzling Excellence!

    This year, we published 22 brand-new, custom-crafted puzzles for our solvers, surpassing the 21 puzzles we featured in 2023. Released fortnightly, these puzzles kept our community engaged and entertained throughout the year. A Special Year for Our Setters 2024 was truly remarkable as several first-time setters on our blog transitioned into professional puzzle creators. A

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  • 1ACGrids Final Leaderboard – 2023

    We ran 21 new puzzles custom made for our solvers, fortnightly, during 2023, 1 less than 22 in 2022. Three puzzles each were set by Aquifer, Bingo and Mathrix, two by Saral and one each from Ambrosia, Avtaar, Eclogue, Hypatia, Inswinger,  Scratch, Sideswipe, Smasher and Veeyares. In addition, one special grid was put together as

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