Edit-1: The Hint post for Crossword Puzzle No. 5 has been posted. FIND IT HERE and have some more fun with the increased prize pool.

Hi everybody!

For those of you who took part in solving the last week's "Care To Read" Crossword Puzzle No.4, 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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And the WINNER is:

@howtostartablog

Congratulations @howtostartablog for winning 75 whaleshares!
He was the quickest with all the required correct answers for the crossword.

We are pleased to let you know that we had quite an enough prize pool this time to enable us to reward all correct entries for this Crossword. Here are all those entries which are eligible for the prize:

@zycr22

@jznsamuel

@kouloumos

@therovingreader

@cathi-xx

All of you have won 35 Whaleshares each from 175 whaleshares prize pool assigned for this category. Congratulations to all of you!

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 by tomorrow. I always wait for any objections, errors & omissions on my behalf in case any participant would like to point out to me. Thanks for your patience and cooperation!

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Special Mention

I'd like this opportunity to introduce you all to:

@kouloumos

Although his entry was not the quickest but it deserves a special mention here for some very special reasons. He submitted his entry in true spirit of solving a crossword. Yes, in the short history of "Care To Read" Crossword Puzzle series, it's the first time we received an entry where all answers were actually filled in the crossword squares. Here is his submission:

No he didn't take a print out and filled and scanned back to submit. But he used the popular image editor Gimp for this purpose. You too can use any image editing software if you so wish. It will save you from any spelling errors in answering the puzzle and will also give you some hints by revealing the overlapping letters at the joints in the grid. However, it's not a requirement for submitting your answers.

This may do take a little extra time but presentation do matters 😊. To quote @kouloumos:

"Either you do it right or you don't do it at all."

Yes buddy, I'm impressed with your ideology and style.

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If @kouloumos or any of you can make an exclusive post for a simple tutorial for submitting answers to the crossword puzzle in the grid format, do post a link to your post in the comment section of the latest crossword puzzle. I'd be happy to give a maximum boost through the @treeplanter vote bot.

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SUGGESTIONS INVITED FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE PRIZE POOL IN NEXT PUZZLE:

I know you all do a lot of hard work to read all the given posts and then search answers according to the given clues. That's why I want to reward all correct entries here. So far, luckily I was able to reward all correct entries all the time. But it may not be always possible with the limited prize pool and increase in participation. Yet, I want to offer some prizes for all correct entries irrespective of the time of submission during the contest period.

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.

So I want to seek your suggestions on the best way to distribute this prize pool among the participants of the next crossword puzzle. My proposal is:

Quickest Correct Entry: 50 Whaleshares
Next 5 correct entries: 100 Whaleshares distributed equally.
TWO LUCKY DELEGATES (Randomly selected 2 correct entries): 500 SP delegation (for 28 days) from @minnowbooster (But this selection though random will be subject to my own discretion as SP will be delegated to deserving active minnows only. So my discretion will override any undeserving a/c. A/c already delegated any SP under this contest won't be obliged again during those 28 day period).

Do you want any modifications to my proposal or is it good to go with? Please comment your suggestion for the betterment of the contest at the earliest as next puzzle is going to be released soon.

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Do keep an eye for the next crossword here. Hints' post can be up anytime from now.

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GRATITUDE AND A SHOUT-OUT:

A massive 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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