Sowmya Ramkumar

Yesterday’s round was pretty challenging and will have to wait another week to see how that turned out.

Meanwhile the top 3 are making us wonder if we should change the I of IXL to International.

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#1ACCWC 540 - Time
Vote for the best clues this week

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1ACCWC 540 – EXPLICIT – OPEN for CLUES This week’s contest is hosted by Veera (S.V.Raghavan) who won  1ACCWC 539 – DELICATE – his second win in 1ACCWC taking him to the #15 spot in the hotly contested 2025 1ACCWC leade…

#1ACCWC 540

#cryptic #clue #contest This week’s word is EXPLICIT. Have you submitted a clue yet?

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Forest Folk Our eighteenth grid for this season is “Forest Folk” from “Aquifer”. You can check other grids from Aquifer here. Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EO…

#1ACGrids Forest Folk www.1across.org/2025/10/05/f... via @somsram

Our latest grid by Aquifer is up in the blog now. Have fun

#cryptic #crossword #contest #free #puzzle

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🤣 Thanks for just “visiting”

Forest Folk Our eighteenth grid for this season is “Forest Folk” from “Aquifer”. You can check other grids from Aquifer here. Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EO…

#1ACGrids Forest Folk www.1across.org/2025/10/05/f... via @somsram

Our latest grid by Aquifer is up in the blog now. Have fun

#cryptic #crossword #contest #free #puzzle

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@lrlr.bsky.social

Congrats to the winners. @adamleepotter.bsky.social - loved your clue 👏👏

1ACCWC 539 – DELICATE – OPEN for CLUES This week’s contest is hosted by LowdownCryptic who won  1ACCWC 538 – INSECT taking him to the #4 spot in the hotly contested 2025 1ACCWC leader board For 1ACCWC 539, he’s chosen …

I'm hosting the 1ACross Clue-Writing Competition again this week! #1ACCWC #cryptic #contest

Please submit a cryptic clue for DELICATE and then come back to vote at the end of the week

May the finest clue win! 😀

YouTube video by Sowmya Ramkumar How to solve a Hypatia puzzle - Sep 30, 2025

My second #cryptic for September as #Hypatia in out in The Hindu today.

Sample clue

Kid lost tackling a poor game - it's touch and go! (7)

Check out the video of IXL Champ Ramki⁩ solving it here

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Crossword Unclued: Demystifying Clue Annotation Shortcodes On crossword solving blogs/communities, solutions are sometimes explained in shorthand notation such as {A}{C}{CLIMA x *} for ACCLAIM, CAL(...

Yes it means explanation - you can check this article on some standard usages - though we don’t need to strictly adhere to it. As long as you explain how the clue works, it should be fine

www.crosswordunclued.com/2013/01/demy...

Thanks - I’ve entered a few times…. but not met with much approval till today!

Cool 😎 The next word is “Delicate”

Lovely clue. Well done on your debut contest at our site 👏👏

Yep - it’s strange how some people seem to pay importance to punctuation as well.

1ACCWC 538 – INSECT – Results Nathan Townshend hosted the previous contest and here’s his summary of the results. This week’s competition was dominated by cricket! Tying in first place with 25 points each are LowdownCrypt…

#1ACCWC 538

Congrats @lowdowncryptic.bsky.social ruskin and others on the podium👏👏

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1ACCWC 538 – INSECT – Voting OPEN Great response and we closed the contest with  25 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. Y…

Time for voting! A bit of repetition and some of the really obvious chestnut type answers, but also a few great inspirations! Enjoyed!

You can vote even if you didn’t submit a clue, so go and have a look! Always good to see what sort of thing people have come up with!

#cryptic #clue #competition

1ACCWC 538 – INSECT – Voting OPEN Great response and we closed the contest with  25 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. Y…

#1ACCWC 538 - INSECT - Voting OPEN www.1across.org/2025/09/26/1...

Voting’s open folks. Please remember that all participants MUST vote according to the rules of the contest. Any one else who is interested is free to vote as well.

Get your clues for INSECT in!

Last chance to submit your #cryptic or # minutecryptic style wicked clues for this week’s contest

Ha ha - Good one @lrlr.bsky.social

Minute Cryptic - 24 September, 2025
"12 - 55 + n = 9 - 12" (5)
⚪️🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣
🏆 1 hints – 3 under the community par (16,368 solvers so far).
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1ACCWC 538 – INSECT – OPEN for CLUES This week’s contest is hosted by Nathan Townshend who won  1ACCWC 537 – SHOOTER making his debut in the hotly contested 2025 1ACCWC leader board For 1ACCWC 538, he’s chosen &#8220…

#1ACCWC 538 www.1across.org/2025/09/22/1...

New contest’s up in the blog

#contest #cryptic #clue

1ACCWC 537 – SHOOTER – Results Satyen Nabar hosted the previous contest and here’s his summary of the results. Nathan Townshend’s shot hits the bulleye, winning with 28 points for Snapper swimming to shore 2nd place …

#1ACCWC 537 Congrats @TownshendNathan @lowdowncryptic.bsky.social and others on the podium

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16C – SpurTed Our seventeenth grid for this season is “16C – SpurTed” from “Sceptic Cryptic”. Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 3rd October 2025. All thos…

#1ACGrids

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Our seventeenth grid for this season is “16C – SpurTed”

Answers can be submitted on or before 3rd Oct. 2025.

Annotations for the puzzle will be posted in the blog on Saturday, 4th Oct., 2025.

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The results are up. Had fun making this special #tribute grid for #madrasday - albeit a bit belated.

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#cryptic #crossword #puzzle #contest #results

1ACCWC 537 – SHOOTER – Voting OPEN Good response and we closed the contest with  21 clues, two 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…

#1ACCWC 537 - SHOOTER - Voting OPEN www.1across.org/2025/09/19/1...

All participants who set clues must vote according to the rules of the contest. Anyone else interested can also vote and help choose the best clues from the lot.

Sample clue from today's Elgar @telegraphnews.bsky.social
#Toughie: He experimented with light Jiffy bag (5) @derekharrison.bsky.social @timlihoreau.bsky.social @jon-summers.bsky.social @tilsit999.bsky.social
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1ACCWC 537 – SHOOTER – OPEN for CLUES This week’s contest is hosted by Satyen Nabar who won  1ACCWC 536 – EXCLUSIVE further cementing his top spot in the 2025 1ACCWC leader board For 1ACCWC 537, he’s chosen “SHO…

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#1ACCWC 537 - Have you submitted a cryptic clue for this week’s contest yet?

1across.org has many cryptic crosswords. A new one is published every two weeks. It’s Ad free and subscription free and been running for many years.

I use it quite often :):) shhh

The Clue Clinic All about Cryptic Crosswords

Here’s one we can start with - I refer to this quite a bit and it is maintained well IMO.

www.clueclinic.com/index.php/an...