India, Sept. 12 -- The nation's brightest young wordsmiths locked horns in the National Inter College Crossword Expedition (NICE) 2025 Grand Finale, culminating in a spectacular display of wit, vocabulary, and mental agility.
Over two action-packed days, 23 teams from across India IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Madras, St Stephen's College, JNU, LNCT etc battled through multiple rigorous stages - written preliminaries, the challenging EXTRA-C round, four thrilling quarter-finals, two nail-biting semi-finals, and the grand finale - to claim crossword supremacy.
When the dust settled, the crown belonged to Pranika Seenam and Seerat Kaur of IIT Delhi, who clinched the winner's trophy, keeping IIT's glorious streak alive for the fourth year in ...