Cryptic
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My journey in IXL 2024
The tenth and final online round of the Indian Crossword League (IXL) 2024 is now over and the results were announced today. IXL is an annual cryptic crossword competition that has been conducted over the last 10 years by Extra C under the guidance and mentorship of a senior bureaucrat and cruciverbalist Mr. Vivek Kumar
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Manama Reloaded – Results
Congrats to “Joanne Rodney” and “Savera Mehra” the winners of the “Manama Reloaded” crossword contest that we had done exclusively for Gulf Weekly readers. Created along with Gulf Weekly’s Naman Arora, the crossword focussed on key achievements in Bahrain during 2021. The contest had a great response with 115 participants attempting the crossword of which
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1ACross 7th Anniversary Gridfest – Roundup
Event Sponsors Puzzle Platform Stage 1 of the 1 Across 7th Anniversary Gridfest is now complete. During the first stage, 110 of 143 registered participants actively attempted to solve 12 cryptic crossword puzzles. The crosswords were of varying difficulty and had a number of interesting themes such as Climate Change, Time, Hollywood Movies, the number
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Tamil Cryptic Crossword – Kattrathu Kaathal – Solutions & Results
Thanks to all of you who participated in Kattrathu Kaathal . A big thanks to “Kaariravu” ( Afterdark aka Shrikanth T) for all the fun and Hari Balakrishnan’s fantastic software which made this possible. Stats: The puzzle got a great response with with 493 views and visits to the puzzle page. We had 28 valid
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Tamil Cryptic Crossword – Kattrathu Kaathal
1Across is delighted to present “Kattrathu Kathal”, our third Tamil cryptic crossword from Afterdark aka Shrikanth T. It will be open for solving and submitting till 28th February. The solution grid and names of all those who got it correct will be published in our blog in March. Hope you enjoy this special grid. Happy




