Stats -We had a decent response for “Entice Faithlessness” and received 36 submissions. Of those who submitted, 25 got the full grid score of 30 and 21 people got the maximum possible score of 36. Here’s the Solution grid.
Three bonus questions were asked at the end of the puzzle
(1). Which of the solution words in the grid connects the 12 members?
(2). What is the phrase (6,14,8) – 1/12’s ??C??????????S ?H????M?
(3). The statement from the title is THIS ???????? IS ?????
The correct answers are
(1) 12A: LOGICIANS
(2) GODEL’S INCOMPLETENESS THEOREMS
(3) This SENTENCE is FALSE
Here are the Annotations.
Across:
1 Reviews e.g., 1/12’s Form V, instructionally by arrangement (4,4) – EG(-M+V)OORES* (for M V), Logician: Moore
5 Fiona’s core proposition is not about restricted rest (6) – fi(O)na+ THES(-is)<<R
10 Lament plaintive Song for Rossetti (dead), ends in recurrence (5) – Rev. Last Letter Acrostic (Song is a dirge by Rosetti and she died due to recurrence of cancer)
11 Unlimited counts at the end, a woman that’s given birth a thousand times to Chief (9) -PARA (Woman that’s given birth) M+ (-c)OUNT(-s)
12 Socialising is not unusual for experts at reasoning (9) – SOCIAL(-IS)ING*
13 These numbers oddly amount to nothing and beguile ears regularly (5) – bEgUiLe EaRs (odd Euler Numbers are 0)
14 Jack and Thomas unconventionally sat out (6) – (ANDTHOMAS-SAT)*
15 Instructionally piss in 1/12’s space – primarily swap partners, adds zest (7) – (-P+S)EANO’S (P is S) +S, Then swap N&S, Logician: Peano
18 Without an alternative, 1/12’s resolved to limit space’s end, middle and beginning (7) – CANT(-OR)S*<<(-spac)E(-a)N(-d), Logician = Cantor
20 An attendant in concrete, empty houses from East (6) – Rev T
22 Groups of 1/12 switches (5) – T, Logician: Turing
24 1/12, without introduction, worked with many people in the end and foremost is deserving praise (9) – ((-H)ILBERT+ M + E + A)* , Logician: HILBERT
25 Everyone’s after the big building, an uncomfortable position being behind it (5,4) – (THEBIG)*+ ALL
26 Say, a bot starts to lock and release vaults automatically (5) – Acrostic
27 Disaster struck as evolution made a step (6) – (DIS(-as)TER)*
28 Elementary school in restoration, withhold microloans for fuel (8) – (ELEMENTARYSCHOOLIN-MICROLOANS)*
Down:
1 In the end, young 1/12 suffered a transformation like cole literally becoming calf and caused a nuisance (6) -G(-O+A)D(-E+F)L+Y, Logician: Godel
2 Rank, say, Newton’s university in parts (9) – EG+REGIO(-N+U)S
3 1/12’s nameless poet comrade edited and corrected excessively (15) -(VE(-N)NSPOETCOMRADE)*, Logician: Venn
4 Describe without a stylish, catching phrasal language principally (7) -Ex (PL) A IN, Def: describe
6 Moodily disturbed, meant to tone down before mate (15) – TEMPER+(AMENT)*+ALLY
7 Toe to head, 1/12 replaced single nightshirt, primarily with a large uniform (5) EQUAL E QUIN(e<=) (-IN) +AL, Logician: QUINE
8 1/12’s cook finally left out sides, alternately made a roast (8) – TARSKI’S-K (-s)I(-d)E(-s))*, Logician: Tarski
9 Made sacrifices to face emergency (6) – CA, (SACRIFICES)* = (CRISIS FACE)
16 Zero guarantee, say, on covering right — ultimately male dominated (9) – O VERB + O(R)N + (-mal)E
17 Develops within uinitiated minds, including confused rebels, mostly contracted (8) – (-m)INDS<<REBE*(-ls)
19 Instrument mirthless Mahatma redesigned following model (3-3) – (MA(-HA)TMA+T)*
20 Meddler not affirmative after 1/12 returned softly with a good deal (7) – RAM(-SEY) + P + LOT, Logician: RAMSEY
21 Essentially shirtless 1/12’s not cold at sea without a shawl (6) -(PE(-I)R(-C)ES)*<-A , Logician: PEIRCE
23 Ignoring outsiders, 1/12 in retirement displayed an African flower (5) – (-f)REG(-e) IN <-, Logician : FREGE
Here is the scorecard (sorted by total, Score and then in Alphabetical order)
The first entry was submitted by Ramani, and it was also the first all-correct entry. The last all-correct entry was received from Max Jackson.
Congrats to all the 21 people who managed to max the score.
This time around, we requested folks to rate the puzzle on a scale of 1 (Lowest) to 10 (Highest). The puzzle got an impressive average score of 8.5
Thanks to Agrippa (Ratnakar) for an amazing concept that was really well executed. Do feel free to comment on the blog with your insights on how and why you went about creating a puzzle with this theme and perhaps a hint to what is coming in the future, from Agrippa for our readers.
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