Stats – We had an excellent response to the grid with 42 submissions, a recent high. Of those who submitted, 31 managed to complete the grid with zero errors but only 5 got the maximum possible score of 166.

Here’s the completed grid.

The solvers had to answer the following questions after solving the grid:

(1) Identify the theme
(2) List any 5 theme words
(3) What are the two solution words without definition?

The correct answers are

(1) All the theme words (there are 10 in the grid) can have the term “GOLDEN” as a prefix.
(2) ANY 5 of OPPORTUNITY, EGG, TOUCH, BOOT, HANDSHAKE, YEARS, AGE, RULES, BRIDGE, WORDS
(3) YEARS AND AGE

You can access the Grid with solutions Here – Clicking Reveal ALL will show you the solutions and Annotations.

Here is the scorecard (sorted by total). Congrats to Anicha, Madhup, Mona, Prakash and Venkatraghavan who maxed the score.

Grid Rating: The puzzle got a  good score of 8.2 and got 7 perfect 10s.

Top 3 Clues:  The most favorite clues were “Pakistani” which got 13 votes and “Occupant”, “Opportunity”, “Cadaveric” and “Handshake” which got 8 votes each.

Hope you enjoyed this interesting puzzle and once again, Happy birthday Supriya. Thanks for all the fun. Did you like the puzzle? Do you have any feedback for us or for the setter. Do comment in the blog and let us know.