Tales Be Retold – Solutions & Annotations

Stats – We had a fantastic response to this grid with a whopping 52 submissions, although it had been posted on a “not for competition” basis.  Of those who submitted, 45 managed to complete the grid while 32 managed to get the maximum possible score of 165. Here’s the completed grid.

The following question had to be answered by the solvers..

1.Look for the NINA in the grid, Tell me what you see?(7)A: BEATLES
2. Find 5 themed words related to the NINA. I’ve got a feeling it won’t take you anytime at all. A: Lady Madonna ,Help,The End, Something , Love Me do
3. Connect the title to the puzzle
A: The title is an anagram of Beatles : Tales be retold anagrind

You can access the Grid with solutions Here – Clicking Reveal ALL will show you the solutions, annotations and the answers to the bonus questions.

The Solvers who got all correct answers were Himanshu Rajurkar, Ramki Krishnan, Shashwat, Prakash Arumugam, S V Raghavan, AK, Madhup Tewari, Arjun Mukerjee, Venkatesan P., Camelia Oberoi, Raju Umamaheswar, Ian VanderSchee,
Max Jackson, Krishnan Anantheswaran, Ashit Hegde, Venkatraghavan Sahasranaman, Neelima Rai, Ananth Srinivasan,
Debasmita Basu, Nilesh Parmar, Bhalchandra Pasupathy, Viresh Ratnakar, Ganesh S Nayak, Sohil, Ashley Smith, Mathi,
Krittibas Dasgupta, Anirudh Sahni, Narayanan R, Maya Sharma, sree_sree and Ratnakar Sonthi
Our Hearty congratulations to all of you and commiserations to those who tried but just missed.

Grid Rating: The puzzle got a good score of 8.12. It got 9 perfect 10s. The minimum score was 3!.

Top 3 Clues:  The most popular clues were “SOMETHING” with 16 votes, “AWESOME” with 12 and “DIURNAL” with 11 votes.

Comments from solvers:

1. Very good puzzle
2. Nice and fun puzzle with easy to spot Nina and theme!
3. Nice grid suitable for the occasion
4. Easyish puzzle and fun to solve. Perfect for a birthday gift. Would have made my day 🙂
5. Well-crafted and good fun
6. Loved it!
7. Most enjoyable quickie
8. Thanks.
9. Very nice puzzle. Not very tough.
10. nice
11. GOOD SHOW!!!
12. Nice and simple. Lovable theme. Good surfaces
13. Enjoyable and easy. Nice for a sunday afternoon. Keep them coming!
14. Very nice puzzle. A bit easy, though, bu 1Across standards.
15. Nice and easy
16. Nice and easy !
17. Easy as a Pie Crossword
18. Nice
19. Lady Madonna clue a little unfair maybe 🙂
20. Simple and elegant.
21. Hi I had made a mistake and then corrected on this form (the 5 beatles songs)> Had Help twice instead of love me do
22. elegant, good ladies. stress free.
23. Very easy solve. Nice for a Sunday morning!
24. A worthy theme. Nice to see the other titles amongst the clues and instructions.
25. Fun puzzle for the occasional enthusiast like me who also happens to be a big fan of the theme. Perhaps experts would find it too easy.
26. Very entertaining and comparatively easy one
27. Nice way to spend a Sunday
28. Very nicely done
29. I liked it!
30. Smooth, should have been a little more difficult.
31. Fun and easy
32. Entertaining
33. A nice puzzle to take us down Memory Lane
34. Good fun, hope to see more from the Bangalore Four!
35. Easy and encouraging
36. What is meant by ” The Nina ” ?
37. Fun theme!
38. Fun, quick puzzle. The theme Couldn’t figure out the parsing for 19A. The rest of it was a breezy solve.
39. Great themed puzzle with lovely smooth surfaces. Many thanks!
40. Twas fun!
41. .
42. Nice enjoyable puzzle
43. A quick and fun puzzle
44. Enjoyed it!
45. Excellent puzzle
46. Nice Birthday gift
47. good one
48. Nostalgic
49. Beatles songs revisited
50. What an entertaining puzzle! Loved it 😍!
51. nice an easy ( for this level)
52. Enjoyed solving the puzzle

Hope you all enjoyed this entertaining themed puzzle from the Bangalore Four. Thanks for taking time to solve and also give some valuable feedback.  Did you like the puzzle?  Please leave your comments in the blog.