“Dictation” from “Mathrix” is our twentieth grid for this season.

Stats: 58 solvers attempted this puzzle.  45 solvers completed the puzzle and bonus forms. Only 20 solvers got the full score.

Try the puzzle here
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Bonus Questions:

1. Job title of someone who might be asked to perform the task described in 20 Across (from the unused parts of the nine * clues)
   
   Solution

   Ans:SECRETARY
   

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

Out of 58 solvers,  45 completed the puzzle though only 20  got the full score. Each of the following scored 159 points (Grid Score – 156,  Bonus – 3).

Al Sanders
Arvind Kannabiran
Harish T.K.
Krittibas Dasgupta
Lakshmi Prakash
Madhup Tewari
Meera Nandakumar
Mona Sogal
Narayanan R
Nilesh Parmar
Paul Henderson
Ramki Krishnan
Ratnakumar V
samit kallianpur
Shashwat Salgaocar
Sparsh Sinha
Srinivas Nivarty
Steve Gunter
Supriya Mithal
Venkatraghavan S

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

Grid Rating: The puzzle got an excellent rating of 8.62. It was rated a perfect 10 by 8 out of the 45 folks who voted (18%). The lowest rating was 7.

Favourite Clues:  The Top clues were

1. 12A I try to follow etiquette at first (3) – 13 votes
2. 27A Kill rodents, chopping off head (3)- 11 votes
3. 1A Assesses uranium extracted for energy challenges (8) – 9 votes
4. 4D Deviously seize throne? Yep, focus on the goal! (4, 2, 3, 5) – 9 votes

Another interesting puzzle from Mathrix with a cool end game. Enjoyed solving it and “taking a letter”.

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