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This week’s contest is hosted by Satyen Nabar who won  1ACCWC 547 – BOUDICA, his 10th win further consolidating his #1 position in the hotly contested 2025 1ACCWC leader board For 1ACCWC 548, he’s chosen “PARTY” Here are the rules Limit of 1 clue per setter. Please Annotate your clues clearly. Please use your known names […]

Our twenty-second grid for this season is “Flower Power” from “Veeyares”. Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 12th December 2025. All those who submit entries have a chance to enter our leader board for 2025. Annotations for the puzzle will be posted in the blog on Saturday, […]

Ruskin was the host and here’s her round up of the week’s contest. The clue-writing competition for BOUDICA received 20 entries. In fifth place with 20 points from 10 voters was ALP with “Revolting Queen of Hearts in mad children’s fable about Alice’s fun travels” In fourth place with 21 points from 11 voters was […]

The solutions, annotations and results are now up on the blog. Check it out at Gentlemen Also don’t miss the solving video in the blog post and the searchable dynamic leaderboard for 2025 in the 1ACGrids – Hall of Fame

We closed the contest with  20 clues, three less than the previous contest. Voting is now OPEN CLICK HERE to cast your votes All participants who set clues are expected to vote. You are not allowed to vote for your own clue Click on clues to shortlist them, click on the ‘Shortlisted’ Button to see […]

This week’s contest is hosted by Ruskin who won  1ACCWC 546 – TIE THE KNOT, her 2nd win taking her to the 18th position in the hotly contested 2025 1ACCWC leader board For 1ACCWC 547, she’s chosen “BOUDICA” Here are the rules Limit of 1 clue per setter. Please Annotate your clues clearly. Please use your […]

As I sit here nursing a mild crossword hangover (and wondering why my brain still feels like it’s chasing anagrams at 3 a.m.), I can finally say: the IXL 2025 online season is done. Ten rounds, ten Sundays of pure cryptic adrenaline, and the results are out. What a ride. For the uninitiated, IXL is […]

Textrous was the host and here’s his round up of the week’s contest. The clue-writing competition for TIE THE KNOT received 23 entries. Tied for 5th place with 18 points from 9 voters are: Sitter for “Make granny take the plunge?” and Ashwin Bhandarkar for “Principally, Tamilians in Ettayapuram trust horoscopes – especially kundali, nakshatras, […]

We closed the contest with  23 clues, four more than the previous contest. Voting is now OPEN CLICK HERE to cast your votes All participants who set clues are expected to vote. You are not allowed to vote for your own clue Click on clues to shortlist them, click on the ‘Shortlisted’ Button to see […]

Our twenty-first grid for this season is “Gentlemen” from “Avtaar”. Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 28th November 2025. All those who submit entries have a chance to enter our leader board for 2025. Annotations for the puzzle will be posted in the blog on Saturday, 29th […]