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2’s Company – Solutions
Here’s the solutions grid The NINA is colored in Yellow. It is the first names of the two setters – MONA and SUPRIYA The pseudonym “SAMURAI PONY” is an anagram of these two names. Here are the Annotations: Across: 7 IMP+(-F)ORTUNE, 8 Telescopic, 9 CAT+LOG+U+E(-xcept), 10 (-y)OGURT*, 12 LEOPAR(-D)*, 13 T+ALI+S+MAN, 16 N(LOVE*)+LA, 19 Spoonerism
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Maiden Over – Solutions
Here’s the Solutions grid Here are the Annotations: Across: 1 P+I CLUB*, 4 AGHA+ST, 8 SOCCER+R-S*+T, 9 HP, 11 MOB+ELI*+H O M E (Acrostic), 12 Telescopic, 13 SPINACH*-N A, 14 CHARISMA*, 16 SPIES*<<ODE, 18 NIGHT*, 20 KUBER-K, 21 MRS I I KNITS*, 23 REDVAN*+A, 24 &Lit – PAT + I + ENT, 25 FLY<< IMA*,
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Mixed Doubles – Solutions
Here’s the Solution grid.. The “notable feature” of the grid, that we were looking for was that it is a Pangram (uses all the letters of the alphabet)
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Welcome to the Party – Solutions
As you all know, the puzzle was an attempt to predict the winner of the elections in the United States and that The Oracle was clear that the winner is D…. In typical double speak of The Oracle, this could mean Democrats or Donald Trump! The party is now over and you would have heard
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Grid 5 – Solutions
We had 29 submissions of which 16 were all correct. For scoring purposes, I first ranked the submissions based on number of correct entries and then based on the time of submission (for a total of 85 points). Further, points were given to identification of the theme (6 points) and for number of theme words