Cryptics

• 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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• Welcome to the Party

  This Halloween, ‘The Oracle” encountered a coven of witches, some sundry wizards, diviners, augurs and soothsayers. Having read tea leaves, coffee grounds, entrails of myriad creatures, and tons of other stuff – they instructed “The Oracle” to make a puzzle and to put this one across to you all..So, “Welcome to the Party..” Submissions of the completed grid should

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• Cat-a-lyst Brand Crosswords

  The editor of Hindu Business line’s brand supplement Cat-a-lyst, Prasad Sangameshwaran, came up with a novel idea of creating themed cryptic crosswords based on brand names.

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