Hi everybody!

For those of you who took part in solving the last week's "Care To Read" Crossword Puzzle No.6, it's about time to release the key Thank you all for participating with such zeal and fervour!

Here comes the Key:

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Before we announce the Prizes, let's know where these come from:

I'm very thankful to our amazingly sweet and tasty Muffin Man Mr. @reggaemuffin (who is also running a witness for the Steem blockchain) and @minnowbooster bot project (which is also the most versatile SP delegation and leasing platform here), who have graciously agreed to delegate a total of 1000 SP for 28 days to the deserving participants of this contest.

We are also thankful to @akrid & @officialfuzzy of Whaleshares Project for continuing to provide their invaluable support by constantly offering 150 whaleshares in the prizes every week.

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And without any much ado, we want to know who won biggest prize this time.

The WINNER is:

@kouloumos

Congratulations @kouloumos for winning 50 WHALESHARES.

AND

MINNOW PLAYER OF THE WEEK
@minnowbooster Special Delegation Award

also goes to

@kouloumos

Many many congratulations to @kouloumos for this achievement! He was the quickest with all the required correct answers for the crossword and to top it all, it was nicely presented by filling up each square of the crossword grid. You will soon be delegated about 500 SP for a period of 28 days.

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The next 4 fastest correct entries were:

@cathi-xx

@gonzo

@ecoinstant

@howtostartablog

All of you have won 25 WHALESHARES each from the remaining 100 whaleshares prize pool assigned for this category. Congratulations to all of you!

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Hey wait!!! It’s not all over yet. Here’s another announcement:

WORTHY MINNOW OF THE WEEK @minnowbooster Special Delegation Award

This week’s

WORTHY MINNOW OF THE WEEK
@minnowbooster Special Delegation Award

goes to:

@gonzo

Many many congratulations to you @gonzol! You will soon be delegated about 500 SP for a period of 28 days.

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Please note that those of you who have not sent me your Bitshares ID yet, please provide me one at the earliest. If you are encountering any problem in registering your account with bitshares or using whaleshares, please feel free to seek any help by joining Whaleshares Discord Server.

As always, prizes will be sent to you only a day after this announcement. I always wait for any objections, errors & omissions on my behalf in case any participant would like to point out to me and I’m open for considering a revision to this announcement. Thanks for your patience and cooperation!

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A Little SurPRISE with Sur-PRIZE:

Hey! All others need not get disappointed for not making up to this list. In fact, I'm glad that this time the number of correct entries far exceeded the pre-assigned prize pool. I'm happy to see more and more participants loving the format of this challenge. But since the beginning of the time (...I mean, since CTR Crossword No.1), I've set a tradition to not to let go any correct entry without a prize. Although there is a limitation at my end and I can't offer everyone a good chunk of the prize pool. But I'll try my best to offer whatever little I can. You might have noticed that I have added a few more lines in the Prize Distribution description of the CTR Crossword Puzzle No.7. I'm applying those extra rewards in retrospect to apply to this Crossword too. So I'm awarding following entries 1 SBD each from the post payout author rewards:

Sorry to keep you waiting for this post. But I was not prepared for this extra prize announcement and didn't had any provision for the same in my wallet. So had to wait for the post payout time. Thanks for all your patience and curiosity about the Crossword Keys!

OOPS!!!! So sorry!!!!! This surprise is on me now! Actually, I never expected these many entries to be incorrect. I only tallied all entries after preparing this post. And as always, the prize pool was sufficient to reward all correct entries.

For the participants with incorrect entries, I'd only request them to pay more attention to the task at hand and there is no need to hurry unnecessarily. Do keep in mind that all correct entries will get some assured prize here. I would love to see your name in this list next time. 👍

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My sincere thanks to all the participants to this contest and best wishes for the next one which is live here.

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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.

A towering shout-out to immensely generous @reggaemuffin and @minnowbooster for sponsoring the account invigorating SP delegations awards. If you haven't heard about @minnowbooster yet, they run one of the best upvote bots with great returns and they also facilitate delegation leasing. Check out their latest update. Visit their website here & join its Discord Community here. Consider voting for the sweet and popular Muffin Man @reggaemuffin as your Steem Witness.

And last but not the least, though it's not possible for me to name everyone here but accept my heartiest thanks to all of you who upvote, promote and resteem the contest post to increase the prize pool for all correct entries.❤️❣️ 💕 💞 💓 💗 💖 💘 💝 💟❤️

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Archive:

If you want to have a look at this crossword's announcement post go here, to check the actual crossword puzzle released after the announcement go here. Keys & Winners' announcement for the previous crossword is here. By visiting these links you can get a good idea about the format of this game. Thanks!

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