Puzzles
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Movie XWordle – Solutions
Stats: The puzzle page had over 600 views and nearly 300 people attempted it. We had 60 solvers submitting their solution here. All except 1 got it correct. Here are the solutions and annotations 1 Couple of soldiers escort student to movie (5) GI G(L)I GI – Soldier, L – Student 2 Mark offers nothing
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Movie XWordle
This Movie XWordle is inspired by #Wordle, the Viral word game that’s taken social media and cruciverbalists by storm. I call it XWordle because it is a combination of a Crossword with a Wordle. Instructions All the solution words are names of Hollywood movies. You can get the answer by either solving the cryptic clue
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Auld Lang Syne
1ACross is happy to present “Auld Lang Syne”, from “Metacryptix”, exclusively for our solvers. Welcome to Metacryptix who is making a debut with her first solo puzzle for the blog. She has earlier set “Major Missing” in Cryptic Crossroads Vol. 3. Her puzzles have also appeared in our blog with the pseudonym “Dynamic Ladies”, in
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1ACGrids Final Leaderboard – 2021
We ran 19 new puzzles custom made for our solvers, fortnightly, during 2021, including two innovative cryptic puzzles in Tamil. Adding on the 25 grids in our Gridfest, we delivered a total of 44 original cryptic crosswords for our readers during 2021. Two puzzles each were set by Bingo, Mathrix, Afterdark and Dynamic Ladies. There
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Form of Attraction – Solutions, Annotations and Results
Stats The puzzle page was loaded 439 times. 255 visitors had a go at it and 34 solvers managed to complete and submit the grid. Of those who submitted 25 managed to get the maximum possible score of 156 including the Bonus.