Stats: The puzzle page had 600 views and was attempted 97 times (higher than 73 last time). All except 2 were correct and some solvers did not submit in the blog.
Solutions:
1 Psycho mercilessly choking poet (5)
HOMER: Correct Location 5, Hidden in Plain Sight
2 Discards piano replaced by a novelist (5)
DUMAS, Correct Location 4, DUMPS-P(Piano)+A
3 Want one new pen (5)
TWAIN, Correct Location 2, Anagram WANT I*
4 Student following behind court writer (5)
WOOLF Correct Location 1, WOO+L+F
5 Author delights in broadcast (5)
JOYCE, Correct Location 3, Homophone of JOYS (Delights)
6 The final XWordle
WILDE – Jumble of WLID and E (W is repeated),
After solving the individual clues, these answers needed to be placed in the Grid correctly as below.
The grid had letter hints in the Pink Squares to help slot the answers. For eg, the C indicated, only an answer with C in the 4th position could be in Place 3 (narrrowing down to JOYCE). The M, indicated, DUMAS or HOMER had to be in the 4th spot while the R confirmed that HOMER was in the 5th spot. So, you had to solve the puzzle like a logic game to arrive at the correct spots for the answers. After doing that, you had to use the letters in Wordle colors, to find the correct answer which was “WILDE”.
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Here is the list of people who submitted correct answers in the blog and some feedback on the puzzle.
The Top 10 Scores based on the time and accuracy recorded in the system were Satyen Nabar, Kenny Koh, Bhargavi, Spiffytrix, Ian VanderSchee, Nicholas Loader, Chris, Venkatraghavan S., Chitra and Rengaswamy.
Based on the time of submission in the blog, here’s our Leaderboard.
| First 10 | |
| Name | Comment |
| Ramesh Swaminathan | Loved it! |
| Gayathri | Super fun!! |
| ‘@madhu367 | Good puzzle |
| Ratna Rao | Awesome one |
| Supriya.Mithal | Loved it , |
| Kenny Koh | Nice puzzle! |
| Thejaswi Udupa | |
| Ian VanderSchee | Tough one this time! |
| Al Sanders | |
| keepitsimple | |
| Others | |
| Name | Comment |
| Sabitha Satchi | Very enjoyable! |
| Madhup Tewari | Very very enjoyable puzzle. |
| ChaplinFoody | Wonderful 🙂 |
| Rajee Gurumurthy | |
| Magi | Fairly easy |
| V RATNAKUMAR | TOO GOOD |
| samit kallianpur | Fun! |
| Tejas Siddharth | Page became blank while solving. Could be a problem with my device, but thought I would mention in case it isn’t … ‘Twain’ is my favouroIte of the lot. Nicr surface. |
| Aashwina | |
| rentawagon72 | Brilliant as always. |
| N Anantakrishnan | |
| Maya | Excellent as usualðŸ‘🻠|
| Ganesh Raman | Very high-quality clues! Keep ‘em coming – thanks a ton! |
| Suyash Roongta | Loved it |
| ‘@chalte_phirte | |
| Lakshmi Prakash | Terrific x wordle |
| saralvaidy | Nice theme 🙂 Loved the clues . |
| Mahesh | Lovely clues and awesome effort. |
| Ramki Krishnan | Good one! |
| VENKATESAN P. | Superb. |
| Ron osher | |
| Debasmita | Nice |
| ‘@corpoetry | confusing – I think I lucked into the solution |
| Arvind Ramaswamy | |
| Ganesh Nayak | |
| ‘@KabirFiraque | Entertaining, but once again becomes easy when you look at the hints. |
| Veena Venkataraman | Excellent |
| kharikumaar | |
| spiffytrix | excellent. The best crossdle 🙂 yet. Loved the title too… |
| Kavita Agrawal Mohanka | |
| amrita majumdar | |
| afterdark0600 | |
| Vimal Panwar | |
| Shilpa Srikanth | Completed this time! |
| B. Menon | |
| Mona Sogal | Great puzzle 🙂 |
| ‘@sam_hayfield | Great! |
| Shreyas | |
| anand ranganathan | Do I get extra points for solving the wordle before solving all the clues? |
| MeeraTweetsToo | Super clues! |
| Gops85 | Nice one |
| sriramfeb14 | Great fun 🙂 |
| ‘@ndcnn | I confess I peeped at a couple of picture clues. Should have given a quote fr.author rather than book cover which made it too easy |
| ‘@KrittiAKL | Some tricky ones, struggled with 4.
The hints helped a lot. |
| Nicholas Loader | Fantastic work! Perfect wordplay in all clues as always and 1-4 have flawless surfaces. Very picky but I’d prefer ‘delights in being broadcast’ or ‘delights in broadcast of/by…’ for surface, of course this would mess up the wordplay though. Oh, I’d prefer ‘a’ new pen for surface but I understand your decision to opt for the fairer wordplay. 1 and 4 were particularly excellent clues 😀 Easier than the last one – which worked well because it allowed me to finish it well within 10 mins haha. Still, a bit more difficulty would be nice. Awesome title again, would be nice to make a clue from the title as a kind of bonus but all good if that’s too ambitious 🙂 |
| N. Rengaswamy | Enjoyed |
| Arunthathi C | |
| Alison Crutchfield | Easy enough to Google the authors of the books I didn’t know. |
| ‘@SatyenNabar | Nice |
| Ashit Hegde | Great puzzle .Getting better each time |
| sandhya paruchuri | |
| Max Jackson | Not too tricky, but I did need a couple of hints. |
| Col Deepak Gopinath | Nil |
| Arshad Nadamal | Good one! |
| Jawahar Surti | |
| ‘@dasgeetha | |
| Suresh Dorbala | |
| Himanshu Rajurkar | |
| ‘@s_shyamsdad | Good puzzle. The hints helped some |
| Jyothish B. | Very interesting. But had to peek. |
| ‘@gpaolopasco | |
| ‘@usharameshnj | |
| Mathangi Venkatesh Dubai | |
| ‘@_Boycie75 | |
| Bhargavi | |
| Chris | |
| Jesse | |
| L | |
| Zulfikar Ali | |
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