Crosswords

  • A Leap of Faith – Solutions, Annotations & Results

    Stats – We had a fabulous response to the grid with 48 submissions, a new high record.  Of those who submitted,  40 managed to complete the grid with zero errors but only 18 got the maximum possible score of 58. Here’s the completed grid. The solvers had to answer the following questions after solving the

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  • A Leap Of Faith

    1ACross is happy to present “A Leap of Faith”, from “The Oracle“, exclusively for our solvers. Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 27th November 2019.. All those who submit entries have a chance to enter our leader board for 2019. Annotations for the puzzle will be discussed

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  • Can you SET a Clue – 3?

    Thanks to all those who participated in setting clues for “EARTH” and voting in “Can you SET a clue -2”. We received a total of 12 clues from Lakshmi Vaidyanathan (1), Padmanabhan P B (1), Sureshkumar A S (1), Cdr. R Ganapathi (1), Sohil (1), Raju Umamaheswar (1), Raghavan SV (1), Ranjani Srikanth (1), Jawahar

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  • AL’s Trick – Solutions, Annotations & Results

    Stats – We had a good response to the grid with 34 submissions, a decent number although not as high as 42 for our previous grid.  Of those who submitted, only 18 managed to complete the grid with zero errors but 17 got the maximum possible score of 180. Here’s the completed grid. SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS In

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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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