“Roll The Dice” from “Metacryptix” is our tenth grid in this season.

Stats: 62 solvers attempted this puzzle.  44 solvers completed the puzzle and the bonus forms. As many as 28 solvers got the full score.

Here is the Grid:
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Bonus Questions:

The grid has 7 theme words. Identify 5 theme words based on the one word clues below and find the theme that connects them.?

1. Ambassador
   
   Solution

   Ans: DIPLOMACY
   

2. Seafood
   
   Solution

   Ans: ABALONE
   

3. Ice
   
   Solution

   Ans: DIAMOND
   

4. Tornado
   
   Solution

   Ans: TWISTER
   

5. Domination
   
   Solution

   Ans: MONOPOLY
   

6. Identify the theme that connects the above (5,5)
   
   Solution

   Ans: BOARD GAMES
   

Here’s the list of Top Scorers (For the full list, please check the Leaderboard in the Hall of Fame)

Out of 62 solvers,  44 completed fully and 28  got the full score. Each of the following scored 166 points (Grid Score – 160,  Bonus – 6).

Abhay Phadnis
Al Sanders
Ashit Hegde
Bhalchandra Pasupathy
Binay Patra
Jyothish Balakrishnan
Koteswar Rao
Krittibas Dasgupta
Lakshmi Prakash
Lakshmi Vaidyanathan
Madhup Tewari
Mona Sogal
Mukundala Balasubramanyam
Nagendra Prasad R.
Narayana Swamy D
Narayanan R
Nilesh Parmar
Paul Henderson
Prakash Arumugam
Ramki Krishnan
Samit Kallianpur
Samraat Saxena
Sparsh Sinha
Tejas Siddharth
Usha Dronamraju
Veera Raghavan
Venkatesan P.
Venkatraghavan S

Congrats to the toppers and to all the solvers who participated.

Grid Rating: The puzzle got a solid rating of 8.4. It was rated a perfect 10 by 10 out of the 44 folks who voted (23%). The lowest rating was 7.

Favorite Clues:  The Top clues were

1. Tact in the beginning of Chess Olympiad, perhaps (9) – 16 votes
2. Plays conservative film (3,5) – 14 votes
3. Tragic hero returning to underworld – sorrowful at heart (7) – 11 votes
4. Endless pie and taco supply one secured by pulling the strings? (9) – 10 votes
5. Maybe teach her to finally get what two people have (4,5)  – 8 votes

Thanks Metacryptix. I love board games and was fortunate to grow up in a family of four kids who all enjoyed playing board games. All our vacations were spent playing many of these. Good clues and an entertaining grid. Thanks for the fun.

PS: The solvers comments are in the comments thread in the post itself.