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Stats – We had a good response to the grid with 30 submissions.  Of those who submitted,  21 managed to complete the grid with zero errors but only 15 got the maximum possible score of 164. Here’s the completed grid.

The solvers had to answer the following questions after solving the grid:

(1) What is the first famous work of 15A in the grid?

(2) What is the second famous work of 15A in the grid?

(3) What is the third famous work of 15A depicted by the title of the puzzle?

(4) What are the six words that represent music syllables?

The correct answers are

1) ST MATTHEW PASSION

(2) BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS

(3) GOLDBERG VARIATIONS

(4) DOE, WRAY, MEE, FAR, SOLAH, TEA

You can access the Grid with solutions Here – Clicking Reveal ALL will show you the solutions, Annotations and the answers to the bonus questions.

Here is the scorecard (sorted by total). Congrats to the 15 people who maxed the score.

Grid Rating: The puzzle got a  good score of 8.8 and got 12 perfect 10s.

Top 3 Clues:  The most favorite clues were “REFUTAL” and “TEA” which got 7 votes each and “HAIRCUT” and “WINCINGLY” which got 6 votes each.

Hope you all enjoyed this brilliant puzzle, which concluded Agrippa’s offering of Godel, Escher and Bach. Once again, thanks to Agrippa for the amazing grid which had so many delicious connections for the fans to unearth.

Did you like the puzzle? Do you have any feedback for us or for the setter? Please leave your comments in the blog.

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 “Dr. Boggle and R Blogged – Solutions, Annotations & Results”
    1. Once again a wonderful and enjoyable puzzle from Agrippa , on the easier side this time ,which in no way lessened the joy as every bonus answer revealed itself😊

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