Cryptics

  • The Devil in the Detail

    1ACross is happy to present with “The Devil in the Detail”, from “Avtaar”, exclusively for our solvers. Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 29th January 2020.. All those who submit entries have a chance to enter our new leader board for 2020. Annotations for the puzzle will

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  • Letters – Solutions, Annotations & Results

    Stats – What a fabulous response to the first grid of this year. You all surprised us with a whopping 57 submissions – a new record at 1ACross!.  Of those who submitted,  35 managed to complete the grid with zero errors but only 15 got the maximum possible score of 250. Here’s the Puzzle NOTE

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  • Letters

    Happy New Year to all our readers. 1ACross is happy to kick off a brand new puzzling season with “Letters”, from “The Oracle“, exclusively for our solvers. Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 15th January 2020.. All those who submit entries have a chance to enter our

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  • 1ACGrids Final Leaderboard – 2019

    We ran 23 new puzzles custom made for our solvers, fortnightly, during 2019, one short of 24 which we ran in 2018. These were set by The Oracle (5), Gussalufz (4), Agrippa (3), Mythical (2), FaSupriya,, FANtastic Three, Pixie Dust,, Andhumanssoar,  Avtaar, Hasslethymi, Teezer, Drumhead and Unstoppable Kums. Thank you setters for some brilliant grids. During

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  • Happy Holidays – Solutions, Annotations & Results

    Stats – We had a good response to the grid with 36 submissions.  Of those who submitted,  32 managed to complete the grid with zero errors and 31 got the maximum possible score of 155. Here’s the completed grid. The solvers had to answer the following questions after solving the grid: (1) Identify the theme

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