🎀 🎊 🎉Happy New Year to everyone!🎈🎈🎈

Here’s a very special New Year bumper bonanza edition of "Care To Read" Crossword Puzzle. Look at the super-duper bigger prize bucket in this offering. This prize pool has got an additional 150 Whaleshares to make it 300 Whaleshares! But wait, we have got 75 more Whaleshares as the previous crossword’s rollover. So in all, we have got a total of 375 WHALESHARES in this week’s prize pool.

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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 375 WHALESHARES IN THIS WEEK'S PRIZE POOL. This prize pool will be equally distributed to the five lucky correct entries selected randomly i.e. 75 Whaleshares each for 5 lucky winners.
I’d also reward all correct entries who don’t win Whaleshares a token gift of 0.25 SBD per person. _{(upto a maximum of 100 participants)}

This way ALL CORRECT ENTRIES* RECEIVED BEFORE THE DEADLINE i.e. Sunday, 14th January 2018, 23:59 Hours, UTC will be honoured.
_{*In case I receive more that 105 correct entries, SBD prizes too will be drawn through a random lottery. So far, I haven’t been that much lucky though.}

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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 @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 exclamation 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. 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, 14th January 2018.
9. In case of no correct entries until the contest deadline time, the Whaleshares in prize pool 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 @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 prizes at my own discretion.

HINTS AND ANSWERS ARE HIDDEN HERE:

1. Five Areas of Abuse (Part 3) - Animal Testing
2. Bitcoin prepaid cards closed, insider trading, slower PC-s to fix one the biggest security flaws of the century
3. My How To Go Vegan Guide For Dummies
4. Cold Knowledge: There are seven "secrets" about sperm, do you know a few?
5. Animal and Idol
6. Be a leader not a boss
7. 9 Benefits of Empty Belly Olive Oil
8. Muniba Mazari Life | Motivational Speaker
9. Steemit – Effective Collaboration in a Global Network
10. CopBlock Founder Ademo Freeman To Square Off In Court Against Drug War

Please go through all the above blog posts, read every word of them and solve this crossword based on them.

Here are the Clues:-

CLUES:

Across

3 I wear my (2, 3)
5 CopBlock Co-founder (4, 4)
7 pay for tests on animals in China (10)
9 sold off all the stock he was permitted to (8)
11 can easily swap their dairy milks out for (5, 5)
15 more effective than a boss (6)
16 Iron Lady of Pakistan (6, 6)
19 provides 20% oxygen to the brain (5, 3)
20 impose their authority (6)

Down

1 a shy person can have this as his personal mythological animal (7)
2 can help us realize our goals (5)
4 Lead by example (8)
6 book I highly recommend (3, 5, 5)
8 animals are abused for the purpose of education every year (2, 7)
10 full of crazy (5)
12 don’t grant extra rights (6)
13 medical organisation advocate against using animals for medical testing (4)
14 membership terminated (9)
17 BLOCKCHAIN BANKING (7)
18 cleanses the body's internal system (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. It will also help me if you save your file with your Steem username. 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. 14 can be found here.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 @akrid & @officialfuzzy of Whaleshares Project for all these haleshares 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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