Stats – We had a good response to the grid with 36 submissions. Of those who submitted, 32 managed to complete the grid with zero errors and 31 got the maximum possible score of 155. Here’s the completed grid.
The solvers had to answer the following questions after solving the grid:
(1) Identify the theme
(2) List 5 theme words
The correct answers are
1) Christmas
(2) DECEMBER, DIVINE, REINDEER, FATHER CHRISTMAS, PRESENTS, EPIPHANY, IMMANUEL, NATIVITY, MANGER, DASHER, CHESTNUT, SHERRY (Chestnut and Sherry were not in the original list that the setters had, but they agreed to award points for these too)
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 31 people who maxed the score.
Grid Rating: The puzzle got a good score of 8.5 and got 7 perfect 10s.
Top 3 Clues: The most favorite clues were “DECEMBER” with 13 votes, “MANGER” with 10 votes and “NEARSIGHTEDNESS” and “HARD DISK/DISC” with 10 votes each.
Hope you all enjoyed this entertaining puzzle, brought to you by the FANtastic three – Fa Ten, Ajeesh VM and Nemo Omen (Pranav Bhople)
Did you like the puzzle? Do you have any feedback for us or for the setters? Would you like more puzzles put together by this combination of setters ? Please leave your comments in the blog.