Hello friends!

Welcome to the thirteenth 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.

Here comes the image for the crossword grid:

PRIZES

Apart from reading, playing and having some fun, we have also got some really cool prizes on offer. I’d be rewarding all correct entries an equal share in the liquid SBDs earned by the Crossword Puzzle post subject to a maximum of 1 SBD per person.

But this is not the only prize you are going to get by participating in this contest. Thanks to our generous sponsors, we have got A TOTAL OF 150 WHALESHARES IN THIS WEEK'S PRIZE POOL TOO. This prize pool will be equally distributed to the first two quickest correct entries.

This way ALL CORRECT ENTRIES RECEIVED BEFORE THE DEADLINE i.e. Sunday, 31st December 2017, 23:59 Hours, UTC will be honoured.

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

In case if no correct entry is received by the deadline, unclaimed whaleshares in prizes will roll-over to next contest.

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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 Hive account@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. Do note that if there are any special characters like inverted comma, a dash or a hyphen, a bracket or a parenthesis, an exclaimation mark or a question mark 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, 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 two quickest entry with all-correct answers will be awarded 75 whaleshares each in prize in addition to the post payout share as mentioned above. Please note that you are not allowed to edit your entry once submitted. The first original submission will count. Contest ends at 23:59 Hours (UTC) on Sunday, 31st 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. That should be enough to solve this crossword puzzle.

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 Hive account@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. AriseBank is Aiming to Decentralize Banking - With Help from Bitshares
   

2. Mindless Eating BOOK REVIEW ! Are You On A "Diet?"-- Here Are Some Hidden Psychological Influences On Eating Patterns + Habits

3. My first Christmas In an orphanage

4. Ripple Price Forecast - 25th December

5. Learning Guitar: Rumpelstiltskin & Intelligently Approaching Your World Subject to Your Perceived Goals

6. The Nightmare Before Christmas (FamilyProtection Series -- Anna's Family Story Part I)
   

7. Leopard sighting at their natural habitat Jawai, India

8. The Falco Conspiracy

9. Five Areas of Animal Abuse (Part 1) - Pets

10. Why You Should Use Scaffolding Instead of Ladder During Construction

Please go through all the above blog posts, read every word of them and be ready to solve the crossword based on them at the scheduled time. The fastest two entries win though there are prizes for every successful entry as described above. Clues for the crossword will be published along with the crossword puzzle this Tuesday.

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The Crossword Puzzle along with Clues
will be posted here on:
Tuesday, 26th December 2017 at about 4:00 PM (UTC)

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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 can be found 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 Hive account@akrid & Hive account@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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