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Puzzle – And Then There Was A Word..

Stats:  Our game post had over 700 views, which is a very good number of people who saw this special X Mas puzzle by “The Oracle”.

We had  21 successful submissions from the following people, who managed to solve and submit the grid. In alphabetical order, they were

Aashwina Mouli, Abhai Jawa, Akshay, Ashit hegde, Ashley Smith, Ganesh Nayak, Jayanth Ramesh, Loks Subtrahmanyam, Lakshmi Vaidyanathan, Madhup Tewari
Mohsin, Mona Sogal, Mukundala Balasubramanyam, Neelima Rai, R B iyengar, Ramki Krishnan, Supriya Mithal, Tulika Das, Usha Mehta, Vasant Srinivasan and Vinayak Rao Ekbote

Congrats to each of you who managed to persevere with this formidable grid and also submit it.

Quite a few of the participants missed by just one point. Congrats to Aashwina Mouli, Abhai Jawa, Ashit hegde, Ashley Smith, Ganesh Nayak, Mohsin, Mona Sogal, Neelima Rai, Usha Mehta, Vasant Srinivasan and Vinayak Rao Ekbote who all scored 145 on 146, missing the HoF by just a point.

19 out of 21 participants got the directions correctly. 16 out of them were able to identify the “Cross” in the puzzle and 15 out of them also spotted the “Crossword” correctly. However, only four participants Abhai Jawa, Akshay, Lakshmi Vaidyanathan and Mohsin spotted the Pangram.

Amongst all the paricipants, only Akshay Bhandarkar  not only scored full on the grid, but also managed to spot all the “hidden” aspects of the puzzle. Without further ado, we are happy to announce “Akshay Bhandarkar” as the Winner of this puzzle.

Here are the names of those who submitted correct entries and they go into our Hall of Fame.

Hall of Fame entrants

Congrats Akshay and all our HoF entrants on that fabulous performance. Thanks to “The Oracle” Kishore for  this entertaining puzzle and hope you all enjoyed solving it. Do comment / write to us with your feedback.

By Sowmya

Sowmya is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and independent financial consultant based in the Middle East (Bahrain). She is a puzzle editor at Amuselabs. She has set over 1,300 crosswords for various publications including over 1000 mini crosswords, cryptic crosswords (under the pseudonym Hypatia for The Hindu) and themed crosswords for Cat.a.lyst (part of The Hindu Businessline). Sowmya runs the Facebook group 1Across where seasoned cruciverbalists interact while setting and solving clues. She has published three compilations of crosswords viz Cryptic Crossroads Volumes 1, 2 and 3. She Tweets cryptic clues daily @somsram

2 thoughts on “And Then There Was A Word – Hall of Fame”
  1. Congrats to the winner Akshay Bhandarkar and Loks Subramanyam, Madhup Tewari, Ramki Krishnan and Tulika Das for entering the Hall of Fame ! It was a real treat solving the puzzle. Thanks a lot Sowmya and ‘the one and only’ Kishore M Rao !

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