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Stats: The puzzle page had over 500 views and was attempted over 350 times.  We had only 73 submissions (lower than 89 last time). Of these only 60 were correct (vs 81 previously).

Solutions:

1 Associate in well made movie (4-1)

WALL-E

WALL-E Insertion of A (Associate) in Anagram of WELL*

2 Number of Frankincense vendor (5)

Seven

SEVEN – Hidden in Plain Sight

3 Twenty in pain after catching cold (5)

Score"

SCORE – Insertion of C in SORE

4 Foolish individual changing to uniform’s dirty (5)

sully

SULLY – S(-i+U)LLY – Substitution of U for I in SILLY

5 He entertains little woman in front of King and Queen (5)

Joker

JOKER – JO (Little woman)+ K + ER

6 The Final XWordle

After solving the individual clues, these answers needed to be placed in the Grid correctly as below.

The grid had letter hints to help slot the answers. For eg, the pink E indicated, only an answer ending in E could be in Place 1 (narrrowing down to either SCORE or WALL E).  The Pink W, indicated, WALL-E had to be in the 4th spot and hence 1 had to be SCORE. So, you had to solve the puzzle like a logic game to arrive at the correct spots for the answers. After doing that, you had to use the letters in Wordle colors, to find the correct answer which was “KLAUS”.

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Here is the list of people who got it correct and their feedback on the puzzle.

S.No. Name Comment Puzzle Rating
1 Thejaswi Udupa 5 – Excellent
2 Suyash Roongta Nice one! The pics helped! 5 – Excellent
3 Priya SHyam Quite tricky – superb clues and the hints helped. fitting the movies in the correct locations was difficult ! 5 – Excellent
4 samit Good one! 5 – Excellent
5 N Anantakrishnan Wall E

Seven

Score

Sully

Joker

5 – Excellent
6 Abhijith 3 – Average
7 Tejas Siddharth Very nice 5 – Excellent
8 Ratna Rao As always very nice . Loved it. 5 – Excellent
9 Himanshu Rajurkar 5 – Excellent
10 Sandhya Paruchuri 4 – Good
11 Ramesh Swaminathan Please revert to previous format more user friendly. Clues didn’t appear in mobile screen. Lovely selection of titles and fantastic clues. Good going. 4 – Good
12 Supriya Mithal Loved it ,loved the clues as well 5 – Excellent
13 Madhusudan H Good puzzle 5 – Excellent
14 Ron osher 5 – Excellent
15 Camelia Oberoi 4 – Good
16 Ashwin Bhandarkar Would not have figured out 2 of the words as well as the final answer without the picture clues and good old Google! 5 – Excellent
17 Sriram Radhakrishnan very enjoyable 5 – Excellent
18 Venkatesan p Enjoyable puzzle. 5 – Excellent
19 Nicholas Loader 4.6 if I could haha. Better and better. Wordplay, as always, perfect. Nicest wordplay concept would have to be SULLY. It was also the only one for which I felt the surface could be improved. Best surface, and best of both I felt, was WALL-E. Somehow I didn’t notice a few of the provided letters making it much harder haha. Once I discovered them, it was possibly still a bit too easy. Though a nice challenge provided by the final letters. Title was the highlight for me though haha. Bravo 😀 4 – Good
20 Mona Sogal Good one 🙂 5 – Excellent
21 Hema Ramanathan Tried only with the images. Much more interesting. A different kind of research/checking. Fun! 4 – Good
22 Sohil 5 – Excellent
23 Al Sanders I liked the changes that made it a bit harder 5 – Excellent
24 anand rangnathan spent too long on 2a till I read the instructions about the clues not being in the right order. 4 – Good
25 Matt Zinno I need the visual hints, but I think you should deepen the challenge by not providing the letter hints. 2 – Poor
26 Arnold Reich 4 – Good
27 Madhup Tewari Another great puzzle. 5 – Excellent
28 Aashwina mouli 4 – Good
29 Narayanan R SUPER 5 – Excellent
30 ASHIT HEGDE Nice clues. Eagerly  looking forward to the next one .I wish you would get rid of the letter hints however. 4 – Good
31 Krittibas Dasgupta A bit trickier so much more interesting 5 – Excellent
32 Usha Ramesh 5 – Excellent
33 V RATNAKUMAR No words to describe  kudos 5 – Excellent
34 Suresh Dorbala 4 – Good
35 Alison Crutchfield 5 – Excellent
36 Geetha Das 5 – Excellent
37 Ramya N My heads still reeling….gotta get a hang of this 4 – Good
38 Srinath Great combination of wordle and crossword! Good fun! 5 – Excellent
39 Arunthathi C 4 – Good
40 Debasmita 5 – Excellent
41 Kabir Firaque Great clues, but picture clues helped in a couple of instances. 5 – Excellent
42 Chris Evans Enjoying these very much. 4 – Good
43 Geoff Lee Fun, as ever, buy only actually heard of 3 of the 6 films … not my thing I’m afraid. 3 – Average
44 Venkatraghavan S. 5 – Excellent
45 N. Rengaswamy Enjoyed solving 5 – Excellent
46 Krishnan Anantheswaran Great as usual 5 – Excellent
47 Sabitha Satchi 4 – Good
48 Max Jackson 4 – Good
49 Lakshmi Prakash Very nice movie wordle 5 – Excellent
50 Mathangi Venkatesh 4 – Good
51 Manjunath Gawade 5 – Excellent
52 Arshad Nadamal 4 – Good
53 Ramki Krishnan 4 – Good
54 Gita Gopinath
55 Arvind Ramaswamy 4 – Good
56 Veena Venkataraman 5 – Excellent
57 Meera Loved it! Nice clues overall! 5 – Excellent
58 Ganesh Nayak Now very doable and fun! Though I didn’t get the different colored (magenta) letters. 5 – Excellent
59 LV Struggled 5 – Excellent
60 Manish Misra

Thanks for all your encouraging Feedback and Congrats to all who tried. Check out for  a new XWordle later today.

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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