Hi all cruciverbalists and wannabe cruciverbalists!

Welcome to the fifth edition of "Care To Read" Crossword Puzzle!
This is a simple crossword game based on the content of some posts whose links are given here. 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. And this time it's huge. As announced a couple of days back, we have got A TOTAL OF 150 WHALESHARES AND 1000 SP IN DELEGATION IN THIS WEEK'S PRIZE POOL. Considering all the suggestions received from you, here goes the distribution of the prize pool:

Distribution of the Prize Pool:

WINNER will be entitled for the first prize of 50 whaleshares plus a possible* MINNOW PLAYER OF THE WEEK @minnowbooster Special Delegation Award of about 500 SP for 28 days.

After the winning entry, ALL CORRECT ENTRIES (maximum up to 5 entries) will be equally distributed the remaining prize pool of 100 whaleshares.

Even if you don't win any whaleshares, ALL CORRECT ENTRIES RECEIVED BEFORE THE DEADLINE i.e. Monday, 16th October 2017, 23:59 Hours, UTC (also including the ones who won whaleshares) will be considered for choosing the WORTHY MINNOW OF THE WEEK @minnowbooster Special Delegation Award of about 500 SP for 28 days.

No one will be awarded more than 50 whaleshares from the prize pool. Unclaimed whaleshares in prizes will roll-over to next contest.

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*@minnowbooster Special Delegation Awards are sponsored by @reggaemuffin & @minnobooster. These awards are meant to support & power up minnows who are actually active and deserving of a SP delegation. So these won't be awarded to any inactive accounts or those who have already been delegated this award in past 28 days. I reserve the right to final decision to choose the deserving recipients for these awards.

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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.

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HOW TO PLAY

1. You are 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.
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.
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. The first quickest entry with all-correct answers will be awarded the first prize as mentioned above. Please note that you are not allowed to edit your entry once submitted. The first original submission will count. So solve it as fast as you can and try to be the first to submit your answers to grab the first prize. Contest ends at 23:59 Hours (UTC) on Monday, 16th October 2017.
9. In case of no correct entries until the contest deadline time, the first prize will be awarded to the entry with the most correct answers. Rest of the whaleshares in prize will be rolled over to a future contest.
10. Since this contest is still in its infancy, puzzle is fairly easier. 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. 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.

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 prize at my own discretion.

HINTS AND ANSWERS ARE HIDDEN HERE:

1. The Essential Uses of Essential Oils For Health Benefits
2. The Most Beautiful Festival Market that I have ever seen
3. The Old Dog Warns: Steem Continues on Its March to World Domination!
4. Can you please spare few minutes to read the story of a humble soul?
5. 1 Egg = 5 Cigarettes - True or False? / Does Animal Injustice Taste Good to You?
6. The Story of Money: The Myth of Barter
7. LIMEWOOD HOUSE HOTEL IN THE NEW FOREST
8. Vote Your Witnesses Wisely - They Determine The Future of Steemit!
9. Vegan Economics Talk at Sea Shepherd Stand Fast Festival Brisbane 2017
10. Would you like to be a full time steemian?

Please go through all the above blog posts, read every word of them and solve the crossword based on them given below. The fastest one win though there are prizes for every successful entry as described above.

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Here are the Clues:

CLUES

ACROSS:

2 naturally soothing scent (5)
4 a few drops on (6)
7 risk increase by 68% (8)
10 rescue dog (6)
14 remind me of (5)
16 most colourful and chaotic area (6, 5)
18 alternative to a monetary economy (6)
19 pulled from their mothers at birth (6)
21 put a value on cruelty (11)
22 'down to earth' person (7)

DOWN:

1 takes his blessings (5, 6)
2 did not flood the field (4)
3 the Trojan Horse of Crypto Currencies (5)
5 will blow you away! (14)
6 decorated for (9)
8 Dead Baby Chicks (4)
9 49% protein (7)
11 first Prime Minister (5)
12 earned my support (5)
13 feeling of peace and tranquility in (3, 6)
15 can eat in the summer (9)
17 it will not work in Asia (4)
20 a good example (4)

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Enjoy and 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 is 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.

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.

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