Cryptics
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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
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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Grid 4 – Solutions
Wow! What a day that was:) When the idea of the “twist” in that grid came to me, I bounced it off a few people and it was still with trepidation that I posted it. I must say that I am overwhelmed by the positive feedback and the way people have managed to crack it..:).