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BONUS QUESTIONS:
- As per the circled letters, what’s the ideal time for this crossword? (8,3,6) ANS: – SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
Annotations
| # | ACROSS – CLUE | SOLUTION | ANNO. |
| 1 | Review heterogamy for study of strategic interaction (4,6) | GAME THEORY | Heterogamy* |
| 6 | Performs a musical with leading artist coming forward (4) | CATS | (-c>)A(C<)TS |
| 10 | … and do make embellishment (3-2) | ADD-ON | And do* |
| 11 | Development of company location (9) | GESTATION | GE STATION |
| 12 | Opponents with time at the end bury the desire to learn (8) | INTEREST | INTER ES T |
| 13 | Allow retiring politician in oriental place of worship (6) | TEMPLE | TE(MP<)L< E |
| 15 | Pull beast without weapon finally (4) | YANK | YA(N)K |
| 16 | Study citation, excluding the first note for seminar (10) | CONFERENCE | CON (-re)FERENCE |
| 19 | Soldiers from east breaking strong smell producing trees (10) | MUSKETEERS | MUSK(E)TREES* |
| 21 | Cry of king in dismay (4) | CROW | C(R)OW |
| 24 | Grab freshly hatched chickens (6) | CLUTCH | DD |
| 26 | Arrest boy after returning narcotic drugs (8) | STOPPAGE | STOP<< PAGE |
| 29 | Tackle online joke guys start to tell (9) | EQUIPMENT | E QUIP MEN T |
| 30 | Order in Free Dictionary (5) | EDICT | Hidden word |
| 31 | Notice by a pusher periodically coming back (4) | ESPY | (b)Y(a)P(u)S(h)E(r)< |
| 32 | We praised eccentric daughter – that’s not unusual (10) | WIDESPREAD | WE PRAISED* D |
| # | DOWN – CLUE | SOLUTION | ANNO. |
| 1 | Dignity of hard work enthralling often savvy youths at first (7) . | GRAVITY | GR{(-s)A(-v)V(-y)}IT Y(-ouths) |
| 2 | According to Spooner, handsome man laments for rocks (9) | MUDSTONES | Spoonerism of stud moans to mudstones |
| 3 | Residence of teen travelling around old city (6) | TENURE | UR>>TEEN* |
| 4 | Boundaries of grasslike plant with tip moved behind (5) | EDGES | (+S)EDGE(-s<<) |
| 5 | Nearly trick husband in haste (4) | RUSH | RUS(-e)H |
| 7 | Firm cold slice of pie containing fruits evenly (5) | CRISP | C (fRuItS) P |
| 8 | Honest error by engineers (7) | SINCERE | SIN, Engineers=CE,RE |
| 9 | Nurse taking European job (6) | CAREER | CAR(E)ER |
| 14 | African region at a distance (4) | AFAR | DD |
| 17 | Follow order respectfully at the end (4) | OBEY | OBE (respectfull)Y |
| 18 | Establishing standard via mentor, perhaps (9) | NORMATIVE | via mentor* |
| 19 | Killer team built without comrade (7) | MACHETE | MA(CHE<<)TE* |
| 20 | Not including short passage outright (6) | EXCEPT | EXCE(-r)PT |
| 22 | With lie, journalist struggled (7) | WRESTED | W REST ED |
| 23 | Support state – take a look in retrospect (6) | UPKEEP | UP PEEK<< |
| 25 | Take over American University President without resistance (5) | USURP | US U(R)P |
| 27 | Article covering Income Tax primarily – one tenths of annual earning (5) | TITHE | T(IT)HE |
| 28 | Member of a mystical knightly order returning from outside Japan (4) | JEDI | Reverse Telescopic |
Scorecard
| Participant(s) Name | Total | GridScore | Bonus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Al Sanders | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Arvind Kannabiran | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Arvind Ramaswamy | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| ashit hegde | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Bhalchandra Pasupathy | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| BINAY KUMAR PATRA | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| D NARAYANA SWAMY | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| david | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Deepak Gopinath | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Dr S Venkatesh | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Himanshu Rajurkar | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Ian VanderSchee | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Irwin Appel | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Krishnan Anantheswaran | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Lakshmi Prakash | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Madhup Tewari | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Madhusudan H | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Max Jackson | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Mona Sogal | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| N Rengaswamy | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| NARAYANAN R | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Nilesh Parmar | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| prakash arumugam | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Priya Shyam | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| R NAGENDRA PRASAD | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Ramki Krishnan | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Ratna Rao | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| RATNAKUMAR V | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| samit kallianpur | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Sohil | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Sparsh Sinha | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Supriya Mithal | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Suresh Dorbala | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Tejas Siddharth | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Veena Venkataraman | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Veera Raghavan | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| VENKATESAN P. | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Venkatraghavan S | 162 | 160 | 2 |
| Ramesh Swaminathan | 161 | 159 | 2 |
| Ranjani Srikanth | 161 | 159 | 2 |
| santha | 161 | 159 | 2 |
| Lakshmi vaidyanathan | 160 | 158 | 2 |
| Kabir Firaque | 159 | 157 | 2 |
| NM | 159 | 157 | 2 |
| PRASAD RV | 158 | 156 | 2 |
Congrats to the 38 solvers who maxed the score and to every one who participated.
Grid Rating: The puzzle got a good score of 8.1. It got 8 perfect 10s (18% of those who rated). The lowest score was 5.
Favorite Clues: The Top 3 clues were
- According to Spooner, handsome man laments for rocks (9) – 13 votes
- Review heterogamy for study of strategic interaction (4,6) – 10 votes
- Tackle online joke guys start to tell (9) – 10 votes
Thanks Metacryptix for an entertaining grid that was matched its name to a T.
Here is what our solvers said…
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| Ideal for weekend solvingchallenging, ideal for weekend |
| Wonderful grid |
| Brilliant Grid |
| NOT SO DIFFICULT ,BUT INTERESTING |
| This puzzle was just the right level of difficulty. It was fun to have the clues fall apart on some thinking but not immediately. The theme seems a bit force-fit though |
| Very smooth puzzle with really good surfaces |
| Neat clues. Enjoyed. |
| wonderful |
| Very fair puzzle with some really nice clues. |
| A nice fairly easy grid |
| Easy one. Enjoyed solving |
| a very nice grid |
| Interesting grid, loved the clues. |
| NICE PUZZLE WITH GOOD SURFACES |
| Excellent surfaces on all clues |
| Nice one |
| Nice grid. Excellent clues |
| Nice grid |
| Fun grid. Surfaces were clear but not immediately obvious |
| Fun puzzle! Would be a bit more elegant if circled letters had some ordering so that final answer didn’t require such a large anagram |
| Liked everything abut the puzzle. Great work! |
| Nice puzzle. Some very good clues. |
| Great puzzle. Good fun. |
| GOOD ONE |
| Easy but entertaining |
| Nice and easy grid for the weekend (except MUDSTONES, all others were quite easy to get). Thanks for the entertainment! |
| Nice and smooth grid! Not sure if ‘narcotic drugs’ = ‘pots’ (only pot..a lot of pot, types of pot etc..) |
| Nice and easy ,perfect for weekend entertainment.Enjoyed the clues |
| Nice breezy puzzle |
| A very good grid. |
| Highly satisfying |
| Nice and simple. Some constructions are debatable but I suppose the approach is quite libertarian. A few surfaces could do with improvement, as an example, the one for MUSKETEERS seems rather odd |
| Good |
| Enjoyed it! |
| Good puzzle |
| Generally sound clues, though I don’t follow 23dn.15ac I started with DRAG(on) |
| Easy puzzle- how is drugs=pots?.. i didn’t think that worked |
| Good |
| Nice and smooth. Cool bonus. |
| good one |
| Overall a simple grid with easy clues |
| Surfaces need improvement |
| Real weekend entertainment |
| Liked the theme |