I know I couldn’t make the regular puzzle for about a month now as I was traveling for some time and then fell ill too. Yeah, it was a loooong break. But the good news is Care To Read Crossword is back ....and back with a bang!

Yes, I've tried to change its format a little by reducing the number of total posts that you must read to solve this crossword and increased the no. of direct and indirect clues per post. Furthermore, to compensate for the past month's void, I'm also increasing the prize pool to 250 Whaleshare for all the crossword puzzles being published for the next month .

So here’s a New & Better & Improved edition of "Care To Read" Crossword Puzzle to add more fun :

We know all Steemians read a lot. But we want to know how many of you care to read, what you read. Most people just scan the article and put their comment asking or clarifying something which was already answered in the original post. So how about incentivizing a thorough read?

“Care To Read” Crossword Puzzle is designed to make you read some posts and have fun in solving a crossword based on the contents of those posts.

PRIZES

Apart from reading, playing and having some fun, we have also got some really cool prizes on offer.
Thanks to our generous sponsors, we have got A TOTAL OF 250 WHALESHARES IN THIS WEEK'S PRIZE POOL. This prize pool will be equally distributed to the five lucky correct entries selected randomly i.e. 50 Whaleshares each for 5 lucky winners.

ALL CORRECT ENTRIES RECEIVED BEFORE THE DEADLINE i.e. Sunday, 25th February 2018, 23:59 Hours, UTC will be honoured.

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In case if no correct entry is received by the deadline, unclaimed Whaleshares in prizes will roll-over to next contest.*

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Whaleshares won in prizes will be transferred to your BitShares account. All participants should comment their BitShares account username after submitting their answers over Steemit Chat to me. If you don't have an account there, please open one and convey it to me. In case you don't want to open an account (though I recommend you get one), you can send me one of your recent post links which will be upvoted by @officalfuzzy account according to the number of whaleshares won by you.

In the eventuality of non-submission of Bitshares or OL ID to me and prizes ain't claimed even 2 weeks after their announcement, I reserve the right to forfeit them.

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HOW TO PLAY

1. You will be given some clues in the form of a phrase, question or a word string based on the contents of the posts given below. You need to figure out the answer according to its corresponding post / article or a related word mentioned there.
2. The empty squares of a crossword puzzle have to be filled with one letter each and you need to write a whole word by filling one letter each in succeeding squares. Do note that if there are any special characters like inverted comma, a dash or a hyphen, a bracket or a parenthesis, an exclaimation mark or a question mark etc., these will occupy a full crossword square too.
3. Clues are categorized separately for writing the word Across (Horizontal) and for Down (Vertical).
4. Serial no. of the clue is mentioned in one square of the crossword. You need to begin your answer to that clue from this square (Across or Down according to the clue category).
5. At the end of the clues there is a number in the brackets. This tells you the total number of letters your answer should comprise of.
6. You may either take a printout of this crossword image, and reload it as your answer after completing it or just write down your answers according to the clue number. You can also use any image editing tool to complete and submit the crossword. Please note, I've added a "Name" option at the top of the crossword to make the sorting easier at my end. Please write your Steem username there.
7. Write all your answers listed by clue no. (Across as well as Down) in a single message and send it to me over Steemit Chat. Also, don't forget to send your Steemit username along with your answers. DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWERS IN THE COMMENTS ON THE CROSSWORD POST. IT WILL DISQUALIFY YOUR ENTRY.
8. Please note that you are not allowed to edit your entry once submitted. The first original submission will count. Contest ends at 23:59 Hours (UTC) on Sunday, 25th February 2018.
9. In case of no correct entries until the contest deadline time, the Whaleshares in prize pool will be rolled over to a future contest.
10. Please note that you are not expected to watch any videos linked or embedded in the post. You also don't need to look into the comment section to search the answers. Just read the post in its entirety. That should be enough to solve this crossword puzzle.

I sincerely hope that you will have fun while playing it.

N.B.: PLEASE DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWERS IN THE COMMENTS HERE. IT WILL DISQUALIFY YOUR ENTRY. SEND YOUR ANSWERS TO ME ON STEEMIT CHAT. MY USERNAME THERE IS xyzashu.DO GIVE YOUR STEEMIT USERNAME ALONG WITH YOUR ANSWERS.

If you're wondering how to edit into the image, here's a detailed guide posted by @ecoinstant to do that using MS Paint though you can do that using any other image editing tool like GIMP too. You can either use image in this post or the one which will be posted with the crossword puzzle tomorrow. A simple print out of it and a photograph of it after filling it with a pen / pencil is also a good option if you don't know how to use an image editing software. Please note that submission in image form is not mandatory but it certainly helps you in solving the crossword and avoiding obvious mistakes. Thanks!

ELIGIBILITY RULES :

No rules. All are welcome to play this game.

DISCLAIMER & FINE PRINTS:

In the rare eventuality of some errors or confusions, I reserve the right to award or not to award the prizes at my own discretion.

HINTS AND ANSWERS ARE HIDDEN HERE:

1. Vegan Anarchy: Can animals give consent?

2. MY ORGANIC BALCONY GROW - GROW YOUR OWN!

3. The History Of Vaccine Series

4. No Penguins in the Arctic BUT they did try once

5. Commemorating visit to the founding father of modern China - Sun Yatsen's Mausoleum

6. The most disturbing human experiments that could never happen today

7. Educating Family About Money : Part 2 - Cryptocurrency

Please go through all the above blog posts, read every word of them and solve this crossword

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Clues for ACROSS & DOWN are given under the crossword image.

Have Fun Solving This Crossword!

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Archive

If you want to have a look at the previous crossword announcement go here, to check the actual crossword puzzle released after the announcement go here. It's Keys & Winners' announcement can be found here. Visiting these links you can get a good idea about the format of this game.

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GRATITUDE AND A SHOUT-OUT:

A thumping thanks and shout-out to @akrid & @officialfuzzy of Whaleshares Project for all these whaleshares in the prizes here. If you are wondering what these whaleshares tokens are, please find out more about it in posts linked here. To interact and know more about whaleshares, you are welcome to join the Whaleshares Project's Discord Community.

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