Room at the Top – Solutions, Annotations & Results

Stats – We had 62 submissions – a whopping response to our latest grid.  Of those who submitted 46 managed to complete the grid with zero errors and 37 went on to get the maximum possible score of 324.

You can play the puzzle in full screen mode here

Here’s the Score card (sorted by total and then alphabetically).

Congrats to  the 37 solvers who maxed the score and to every one who participated. Very well tried.

Grid Rating: The puzzle got a good score of 8.04. It got 11 perfect 10s – i.e 17% of  those who submitted thought it was perfect. The minimum score was 3.

Top 3 Clues:  The most favorite clues were for “RELOCATE” with 19 votes, “ROSEATE” and “ROBOTS” with 14 votes each.

Hope you all enjoyed this entertaining puzzle. Thanks for  your support and wonderful comments. Sharing these comments with our readers..

Comments from solvers:

1. Innovative puzzle. Theme was clear, and that made it an easy fill – just right for a Sunday morning!
2. Nice and easy
3. Excellent grid
4. After the third solution, the obviousness of the theme made the rest of the grid a bit too easy.
5. Good effort to have all clues and entries starting with same letter. A bit too easy, however a nice diversion
6. Really reflecting radiance
7. Great Idea!!!!
8. Enjoyed all the R-are clues
9. Great idea!
10. Nice grid..enjoyed solving it!!
11. CAKE WALK
12. Nice straightforward puzzle. Easy because of the sign-posting
13. that was fun 🙂 REally…
14. EASY
15. Nice lazy afternoon solve for a Sunday
16. Fairly simple crossword but a pleasant way to spend a sunday afternoon
17. Nice theme, and well executed, but less challenging than usual for a 1across puzzle.
18. How am I supposed to create a PDF? Then again, easy to complete on screen.
19. Smooth and easy flowimg
20. Well crafted grid.
21. Really Refreshing!
22. Enjoyed myself! The ‘r’ factor is very impressive.
23. simple and elegant
24. Wow ! It is tough to set all clues & solutions with same letter. Hats off to you Ashley 🙂
25. Very innovative idea
26. Nice & Easy
27. Breezy, enjoyable with good surfaces
28. very creative
29. 15 down – could not figure how “”des”” is “”some french””,  21 across – not sure how reckon = rely, 27 across – roll in hay = relationS i think, 24 down – not sure recreation space = room”
30. good
31. The crossing letters make it easier for the silver, but hats off to the setter for setting excellent clues.
32. Good clues, but a tad easy.
33. Nice and interesting
34. Nice and smooth .
35. Very easy nice grid
36. good one
37. Fun and Enjoyable grid , not easy to make such a grid ,kudos Ashley
38. Fun.thanku
39. Excellent
40. Cleverly done puzzle. Loved it. I am sorry the site went off a couple of the times on my iphone so had to start all over again and hence the time is looking much better than it should be
41. Skillfully created very entertaining to solve
42. Great puzzle – can imagine that it would have been quite some challenge to set
43. Thoroughly enjoyed it!
44. Really Remarkable!
45. Nice and easy
46. VERY GOOD.
47. The R construct was a little too restrictive IMO
48. Interesting concept of starting everything with the letter R, smooth clues
49. Super! How does one even manage that!
50. Well set!
51. Similar standard to Guardian Quiptic
52. A real entertainer
53. Simple and elegant
54. Great grid. Not sure about the new form submission process though. Super-annoying to enter name and email address even before starting. (#process-wonk-complaints #first-world-problems)
55. Smooth and pleasant solve!
56. The Java script for the puzzle is defective. Had to enter the answers many times. Also it does not work in iPad Safari.
57. Remarkable gRid-fill!
58. It was fun. Nice idea!
59. Fun puzzle, good concept and well-formed clues but too easy
60. Thank you for a good puzzle!!😊
61. Enjoyed it! Thanks!
62. Had fun solving it!
63. Clever grid construction and a clever gimmick having each clue start with R