No, the squares should be inside the grid.

Puzzle 12
Can two vertical words touch but not intersect each other?
Besides, I hope there are more details about how to create a crossword to make it clearer.

When is the contest ending exactly? because if that is anytime later than Midnight IST in the night from the 23th to 24th of april (in 3h20), i won't be able to submit answers after that

If that is the case, do i send an email to logicmasteradmin@gmail.com as if the website was down?

Ya you can but let us know in the mail why you're unable to submit answers.

The most obvious reason would be that everyone who started this contest before the end time was extended has had a countdown clock that expired a few hours ago and for us the LMI platform says the contest is over. (When the end of the contest was extended, the submission deadlines for those who had already started the contest did not get extended).
(As for myself I don't care because I finished everything I wanted to do, assuming no further surprises about previously unexplained rules that change the nature of any puzzles).-- Denis

Edited by auroux 2023-04-24 1:56 AM

Oof I genuinely missed that the countdown clock and the end time setting are differently coded for this contest. We will try to reset it but yes we will accept submissions via email for now. Thanks for pointing this out.

The timer issue is now fixed and submissions can be made till the actual contest end.

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Edited by L00ping007 2023-04-25 3:50 PM

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Congratulations to Denis, Valentin and Paul!

Thank you Riad for what was a very nice (and challenging) contest as usual.
And sorry I wrote some grumpy messages about unclear rules for the optimizer puzzles, it was frustrating in the moment but in retrospect it wasn't such a big deal.
Denis

Thank you Denis!
I want to thank all the participants and everyone who helped me in the organization. See you soon!

Thanks for the beautiful contest & congrats do Denis for the victory and everyone else on their efforts as well!

Moreover, I unfortunately submitted column 3 instead of 4 on accident for Navigation, but I have a downloaded image (with time stamp within contest time) of the correct solution that I took from Penpa after finishing the puzzle there, is there a way for me to claim those 6 points, Riad? Or is it just unfortunate?

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Can you mail your image to logicmasteradmin@gmail.com? We will look into it.

Done!