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IMPORTANT UPDATE (17/12/2017):

SINCE @officialfuzzy ACCOUNT WAS UNDELEGATED TODAY, THE VALUE OF WHALESHARES HAS FELL DOWN DRASTICALLY. IN THE LIGHT OF THIS THE PRIZE POOL FOR THIS CONTEST WILL BE RE-EVALUATED AND DECLARED LATER. I'LL TRY MY BEST IN THE BEST INTEREST OF ALL PARTICIPANTS. PLEASE DON'T LET THIS EVENT HAVE ANY IMPACT ON YOUR PARTICIPATION. ALWAYS HAVE FUN AND ENJOY SOLVING THIS CROSSWORD. THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

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Hello friends!

Welcome to the twelfth edition of "Care To Read" Crossword Puzzle!

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 150 WHALESHARES IN THIS WEEK'S PRIZE POOL. This prize pool will be distributed among the participants of this game as below:

Distribution of the Prize Pool:

QUICKEST CORRECT ENTRY will be entitled for the first prize of 50 whaleshares

ALL OTHER CORRECT ENTRIES
After the winning entry, the remaining prize pool of 100 Whaleshares will be equally distributed among all correct entries (maximum up to 5 entries). If there are more than 5 correct entries apart from the Quickest Correct Entry, 5 of them will be chosen on the basis of a random draw and 100 Whaleshare tokens will be equally distributed among them.

OHH! YOU DIDN'T WIN WHALESHARES? NO PROBS!:
Since we have a limited prize sponsorship at the moment, so I'll be contributing 50% of the SBDs from the Crossword Puzzle post payout to the prize pool in case the requirement arises. For all the correct entries not winning any Whaleshares, 50% of the post's SBDs will be equally distributed among all correct entries subject to the maximum limitation of 1 SBD / 1 Steem each.

This way ALL CORRECT ENTRIES RECEIVED BEFORE THE DEADLINE i.e. Sunday, 17th December 2017, 23:59 Hours, UTC will be honoured.

Please note that I don't intend to offer a higher worth prize than the whaleshares received by any participants here . So I may opt for giving away Steem instead of SBD due to the current market scenario.
But I'd be giving away SBDs to the particiapnts of last crossword as committed, anyways. The prizes for Crossword -11 will be announced tomorrow.

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Sorry, it won't be possible for me to reward SBDs to incorrect entries at the moment.

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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It's not possible to name everyone here but accept my heartiest thanks to all of you who UPVOTE & RESTEEM / REBLOG the contest post to increase the prize pool for all correct entries.

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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.

*Referral Link

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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 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, due to increasing no. of image edited entries, 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. 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 Sunday, 17th December 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. 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.

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 prize at my own discretion.

HINTS AND ANSWERS ARE HIDDEN HERE:

1. TALKS/OPINION: Is Bitcoin Undervalued? Let's Recall Milton Friedman’s Theory.

2. Tears of a teacher and his daughter

3. Bitcoin: Are You Forking Kidding Me?

4. Cool things we do with Satellites #5 : Counting Penguins in Antarctica!

5. Be a snob!

6. Goechala; wilderness of the Himalayas - My 1st Himalayan Trek ever - Day 6/10

7. Vegan 'Chicken' & Mushroom mini pies ‘n mash!

8. Everything is ok - Danny shine

9. 10 Tips & Tricks To Ease Your Way Into A Plant-Based or Vegan Lifestyle (+ Why Plants Matter)

10. How to Plant a (bare root) Tree the Best Way

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

Here are the Clues:-

CLUES:

Across

2 was nearer (7)
3 developed by European team (4)
4 turns his up (4)
7 remind me of her (9)
9 mining algorithm (8)
10 add (4)
13 Trim now (4, 5)
14 war-torn (5)
15 called to present at (10)
18 Thanks to the (3)
19 much needed (6)

Down

1 is a bit (8)
2 started freezing (4)
5 a family of (11)
6 can hardly drink a (5)
8 monetarist (8)
11 defending (8)
12 more evolved (5)
16 size of each (5)
17 so delicious! (5)

And here comes the Crossword:

[Those who submit the entry with image, please note that I've added a "Name" option (in RED colour) at the top of the crossword to make the sorting easier at my end. Please write your Steem username there. Thanks!]

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Enjoy and have fun solving this crossword!

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Archive

The first announcement post for this Crossword Puzzle No. 12 can be found here,If you want to have a look at the previous crossword No. 11 announcement go here, to check the actual crossword puzzle No. 11 released after the announcement find it here. It's Keys & Winners' announcement will be released tomorrow. 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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