Crossword like never seen before

I have been an avid crossword solver for more than last 5 decades. I remember those days of my early childhood in Delhi , when I was hardly 10 years old and my uncles used to solve daily crossword that appeared in The Evening News, Delhi edition that since stands discontinued. While this was freely available in Connaught Place, the workplace of one of my uncles, it was not available in the residential locality where I lived with my parents. Hence, it was only when I was at my grandma’s house that this wish of mine used to get fulfilled, with the uncle bringing the copy of the evening newspaper daily.

This passion that got triggered in me at very early years of my life, only grew with my age and today I solve at least four crosswords every day – Times of India, Economic Times and two in Hindustan Times – same grid, but two sets of clues – easy and cryptic. At least, because at times, if I go to market in the morning, I also pick up a copy of Indian Express and Mid Day, adding two more crossword to my day’s routine. In addition, I also once in a while attempt online grids.

The idea of sharing the above background is the unique crossword that I came across today, the like of which I had neither seen nor solved before. It had 5 clues in the across section – (1) Baseball level just below majors (2) letters written in the bottle of poison in the cartoons (3) three on a grandfather click (4) tic tac toe winner and (5) delicious – and answers to these clues were AAA, XXX, III, OOO, MMM respectively. The three down clues were – (1) what goes up must come down e.g. (2) x+y=y+x e.g. and (3) this is given and the answers to all these three clue was AXIOM. Picture of the solved grid is given above.

As I found it unique, I thought of sharing it with all my readers.