Kishore Rao

  • 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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  • A Leap of Faith – Solutions, Annotations & Results

    Stats – We had a fabulous response to the grid with 48 submissions, a new high record.  Of those who submitted,  40 managed to complete the grid with zero errors but only 18 got the maximum possible score of 58. Here’s the completed grid. The solvers had to answer the following questions after solving the

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  • A Leap Of Faith

    1ACross is happy to present “A Leap of Faith”, from “The Oracle“, exclusively for our solvers. Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 27th November 2019.. All those who submit entries have a chance to enter our leader board for 2019. Annotations for the puzzle will be discussed

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  • Saunter Irresolutely  – Solutions, Annotations & Results

    Saunter Irresolutely – Solutions, Annotations & Results

    Stats – We had a great response to the grid with 46 submissions, 1 more than last time. As noted in our prior post, our scoring and ranking are based on the total number errors, allotting 100 points to those who have submitted with no errors and reducing points based on the number of errors

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  • Oh! To be a Lunatic! – Solutions, Annotations & Results

    The timing of the puzzle was impeccable. During the contest, we celebrated the 50th year of the historic moon landing and also the successful launch of Chandrayaan 2, India’s second lunar mission. As is his wont, The Oracle managed to time two themed puzzles to appear at the same time – one in 1ACross and

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