Cryptics

  • 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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  • Grid 5 – Solutions

    We had 29 submissions of which 16 were all correct. For scoring purposes, I first ranked the submissions based on number of correct entries and then based on the time of submission (for a total of 85 points). Further, points were given to identification of the theme (6 points) and for number of theme words

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  • 1 ACross Grid 5

    1 ACross Grid 5

    This Crossword was first published on 31st October 2015. You can solve it interactively here Click here for the PDF version Click here for the solutions

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