Crosswords
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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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Boatman Cryptics
In September, Ashley Knowles, known to cryptic crossword afficionados as The Guardian’s setter, Boatman published a new collection of puzzles titled Boatman, the second fifty. Just like his first book (Boatman, the first 50), the second collection offers not only the puzzles themselves but also the stories that went into creating these puzzles, additional clue
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The Family Woman – Solutions, Annotations and Results
Stats The puzzle page was loaded over 589 times. 139 visitors had a go at it and 50 solvers managed to complete and submit. Of those who submitted, only 22 managed to get the full score.
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The Family Woman
On International Women’s Day 2023, 1ACross is happy to present “The Family Woman”, a special puzzle put together by Qrypt On Y X and me along with several talented cruciverbalists from across the globe. Women are the crux of every family and this grid is dedicated to every such woman who juggles multiple roles while