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Stats: The puzzle page had over 600 views and nearly 300 people attempted it.  We had 60 solvers submitting their solution here. All except 1 got it correct.

Here are the solutions and annotations

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Couple of soldiers escort student to movie (5)

GI G(L)I GI – Soldier, L – Student
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Mark offers nothing for a movie (5)

T(-o+A)KEN – TOKEN-O+A
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Movie’s story featured in article (5)

A(LIE)N LIE (Story) inserted in AN (article)
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Movie’s a bit short – profound on reflection (5)

S + PEED<<
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Steffi’s back with old movie (5)

FARG<<+O GRAF reversed + O (Old)
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The Movie Wordle – FRIDA

Here’s the list of solvers (in the order of submission)..

SNO Name Comment Rating
1 Raja S 5 – Excellent
2 Arvind 4 – Good
3 Himanshu Rajurkar 5 – Excellent
4 Kumaresh K R 4 – Good
5 Mona Sogal Super brilliant 5 – Excellent
6 Jack Martin 5 – Excellent
7 Louvina Andrade Nice one to have. Can give me sleepless nights though. 5 – Excellent
8 Ian VanderSchee These are fun! 5 – Excellent
9 Kenny Koh 5 – Excellent
10 Dave Williams Nice concept 🙂 4 – Good
11 samit kallianpur 5 – Excellent
12 Ratna Rao Sooper se bhi ooper 5 – Excellent
13 Zulfikar Ali interesting,  will hit excellent for sure if it develops 4 – Good
14 Kabir Firaque Too easy. Did not use all yellow letters indicated. 4 – Good
15 Sowps 5 – Excellent
16 Tulika Das 4 – Good
17 ramki good fun! 5 – Excellent
18 VENKATRAGHAVAN SAHASRANAMAN 5 – Excellent
19 Ganesh Nayak Great idea! 5 – Excellent
20 Gayathri This was brilliant!!! 5 – Excellent
21 Tejas Siddharth Pics made it easy … 5 – Excellent
22 mathangi Solved it with the help of my daughter!! 4 – Good
23 Sanjeev 4 – Good
24 Veena Venkataraman 5 – Excellent
25 Alanckrit Interesting concept! 5 – Excellent
26 Meera Love it! Cool idea! 5 – Excellent
27 suresh Used google a lot 😀 5 – Excellent
28 Ram 5 – Excellent
29 Aashwina mouli 4 – Good
30 ‘@usharameshnj Love the concept! Patent it! 🙂 4 – Good
31 MJ 5 – Excellent
32 Manish Misra Keep ’em coming! 5 – Excellent
33 Sparsh 4 – Good
34 Krittibas Dasgupta 5 – Excellent
35 Supriya Mithal Fun ,make it a regular feature 4 – Good
36 Suresh Dorbala 3 – Average
37 Arshad Did some googling 4 – Good
38 Sabitha Satchi Very innovative and enjoyable! 5 – Excellent
39 Geetha Das Good adaptation of wordle and cryptic clues 5 – Excellent
40 V RATNAKUMAR Interesting 4 – Good
41 Debasmita Basu Loved the idea. Excellent. 5 – Excellent
42 sandhya paruchuri 4 – Good
43 Nick Good variety of difficulty especially as it is themed. Great wordplay all round, favourite in 2. Loved surfaces in 1, 3 and 5. Cool theme and still loving the novel style 🙂 4 – Good
44 VENKATESAN P. Interesting.  Loved it. 5 – Excellent
45 Geoff Lee Sorry, I’m just not keen on movies 2 – Poor
46 Abide 5 – Excellent
47 S V Raghavan Interesting puzzle 4 – Good
48 Arvind Pretty good for the first try. Excellent work! 4 – Good
49 Suyash Roongta 4 – Good
50 Dr S Venkatesh Intriguing 5 – Excellent
51 Narayanan R interesting 4 – Good
52 Amartya Saha Lovely thought behind the idea and had a great time solving it 5 – Excellent
53 Max Jackson 4 – Good
54 Madhup Tewari Great start! 5 – Excellent
55 Col Deepak Gopinath 4 – Good
56 Anirudh Sahni Great idea and fun! Especially since I did my first Wordle earlier today. 🙂

“Mark” for “token” was a bit tough. Had to use the picture clue.

5 – Excellent
57 Sowps 5 – Excellent
58 Krishnan Anantheswaran Too easy though with the posters etc. But 5 points for the concept! 5 – Excellent
59 Guha Srivatsa Good fun, Sowmya! Awesome setting this up with the movie theme! 5 – Excellent

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

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