Cryptics

  • Mixed Doubles – Hall of Fame

    Puzzle – Mixed Doubles Stats:  This puzzle by Brainiac had over 400 views, indicating quite a few people had strolled in to the puzzle page, but we had only 18 successful submissions. Of this, if duplicates were ignored, effectively only the following 16 people managed to solve and submit the grid.

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  • Mixed Doubles

    This Crossword, by Brainiac, has been specially prepared to commemorate 400 games played at One Across. Brainiac puzzles are created by me, in collaboration with other members from our facebook group 1ACross. For this puzzle, the contributors include Aashwina Mouli, Arun Kumar, Debasmita Basu, Ganesh Nayak, Guruswamy Nataraj, Manish Misra, Mona Sogal, Narayan Mandyam, Supriya

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  • Mixed Doubles – The Teaser

    Brainiac (our new handle for the Brains of 1AC ) is all set to challenge you all once again with “Mixed Doubles”. This compilation features a custom grid and clues by me, in collaboration with ten other contributors from our facebook group 1ACross viz., Aashwina Mouli, Arun Kumar, Debasmita Basu, Ganesh Nayak, Guruswamy Nataraj, Manish

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  • Welcome to the Party – Solutions

    As you all know, the puzzle was an attempt to predict the winner of the elections in the United States and that The Oracle was clear that the winner is D…. In typical double speak of The Oracle, this could mean Democrats or Donald Trump! The party is now over and you would have heard

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  • Welcome to the Party – Hall of Fame

    Puzzle – Welcome to the Party Stats:  32 persons submitted answers, some with both grids. The following persons (in alphabetical order) submitted both the grids: Aashwina Mouli, Ashley Smith, Brian Dungate, Lakshmi Vaidyanathan, Manish Misra, Mona Sogal, Ramki Krishnan, Rengaswamy Narasimhan, Supriya Mithal and Uma Raghavan. The following persons (in alphabetical order) submitted one or

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