Hello friends!

Welcome to the seventh 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 AND 1000 SP IN DELEGATION 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:

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. Thursday, 2nd November 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.

For all remaining correct entries:

Since we have a limited prize sponsorship at the moment, so I'll be contributing 50% of the SBDs from this post's payout to the prize pool. For all the correct entries not winning any whaleshares or @minnowbooster SP delegation, 50% of the post's SBDs will be equally distributed among all correct entries subject to the maximum limitation of 1 SBD each. Sorry, it won't be possible for me to reward SBDs to incorrect entries at the moment.

It's not possible to name everyone here but accept my heartiest thanks to all of you who upvote and resteem the contest post to increase the prize pool for all correct entries

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*@minnowbooster Special Delegation Awards are sponsored by @reggaemuffin & @minnowbooster. 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 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.
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 entry, 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 on Thursday, 2nd November 2017 at 23:59 Hours, UTC.
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. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) - Lets talk film / Racism, parenting and murder
2. Amazon Could Accept Bitcoin As Payment Very Soon | Here's The Rumours
3. LEARN | Create Musical Instruments with Recycling Material
4. EmmaSofia: Helps Legalize Psychedelics
5. Alien-Like Moth With Tentacles Terrifies The Internet - But Is This Creature Real?
6. "THE FLAME THAT CONSUMES" Scientific experiment
7. Publishing Your Work on Steemit: Some Advantages and A Single (But Serious) Disadvantage
8. Organic Farm Visit, say no to Monsanto!
9. Robbie Williams Is Vegan!! Or is he?
10. The Future of Sex

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

Here are the Clues:-

CLUES:

Across

2 some kind of machines (6)
4 a lawyer (5)
6 significantly less dangerous (3)
7 part of the Earth (5)
10 a way of living (8)
12 came across a monkey (9)
16 great get away (9, 4)
21 help stop (8)
22 hairy appendages (8)
24 for fireplaces (7)

Down

1 a Newspaper (3, 4)
3 are sold in (11)
5 do not promote (7)
8 hard earned (5)
9 publish it through (6)
11 nothing but positive (11)
13 doesn't bite (2, 6)
14 you may not have had before (8)
15 “wisdom” (5)
17 different colors (7)
18 easy to create (7)
19 a small town (7)
20 completely booked (5)
23 should not get wet (4)

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. 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 tool as well. Please note that submission in image form is not mandatory but it certainly helps you in solving the crossword and avoiding obvious mistakes.Thanks!]

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Enjoy and have fun solving this crossword!

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Archive

If you want to have a look at this crossword's Hint announcement post, go here, to check the previous crossword puzzle go here. Last crossword's Keys & Winners' announcement will be made soon. 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.

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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