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Here is the solution grid:
BONUS QUESTIONS:
Q1: Untranslated entry for 1A (4)
ANS: WILE (AISLEWAY)
Q2: Untranslated entry for 10A (4)
ANS: WALL (ALWAY)
Q3: Untranslated entry for 28A (3)
ANS: PUN (UNPAY)
Q4: Untranslated entry for 31A (6)
ANS: WONDER (UNDERWAY)
Q5: Untranslated entry for 1D (4)
ANS: WEAR (AIRWAY)
Q6: Untranslated entry for 8D (5)
ANS: STOUT (OUTSTAY)
Q7: Untranslated entry for 19D (5)
ANS: TRASH (ASHTRAY)
Q8: Untranslated entry for 23D (4)
ANS: LOUT (OUTLAY)
Q9: What’s the entry from the circled letters (2 words)
ANS: IGPAY ATINLAY (Points were also allotted for PIG LATIN)
Q10: Untranslated version of the Grid’s title (5)
ANS: STYLE (Points were also allotted for STILL)
Annotations
| Ref | Clue | Answer | Annotation |
| 1A | Cheating with one member cut (4) | WILE* (AISLEWAY) | W+I+LEG-G |
| 5A | Fashionable, like old shade of blue (6) | INDIGO | IN+DIG+O |
| 9A | Sphere’s orbit (5) | RANGE | DD |
| 10A | Legislation held back by large obstacle (4) | WALL* (ALWAY) | LAW<+L |
| 12A | Dip station (3) | SET | DD |
| 13A | Daughter in calm respite to abstain from food special at certain restaurants (3-3, 9) | ALL-DAY BREAKFAST | ALL(D)AY+BREAK+FAST |
| 15A | Standing docket held by tin soldier (8) | STAGNANT | S(TAG)N+ANT |
| 18A | 100% sulphur-free soy blend (5) | ALLOY | ALL+SOY-S |
| 19A | Release a freeloader after trial’s conclusion (5) | ALBUM | A(L)BUM |
| 21A | Banks on harbours finally submerge where diving boards can be found (4, 4) | DEEP ENDS | DE(E)PENDS |
| 24A | Now you achievers composed a question of assistance (3, 3, 1, 5, 3) | HOW CAN I SERVE YOU | (NOW YOU ACHIEVERS)* |
| 27A | Short official bereft after losing wager outside (3) | REF | BEREFT-BET |
| 28A | A form of wordplay back up north (3) | PUN* (UNPAY) | UP<+N |
| 29A | Lonny developed a hydrocarbon radical (5) | NONYL | LONNY* |
| 30A | Historically, you start to like each one who howls (6) | YELPER | YE+L+PER |
| 31A | Question new order development without hesitation (6) | WONDER* (UNDERWAY) | (NEW ORDER-ER)* |
| 1D | You and I are lacking energy for sport (4) | WEAR* (AIRWAY) | WE+ARE-E |
| 2D | Carol rented underwear (7) | SINGLET | SING LET |
| 3D | Cathartic gents from the south admitted by midyear (5) | ENEMA | yE(MEN<)Ar |
| 4D | Wall support found inside, along with country singer (4, 5) | ADAM BRAND | A(DAM+BRA)ND |
| 6D | No indeed! (3) | NAY | DD |
| 7D | Lodge where you might find a shower (7) | INSTALL | IN STALL |
| 8D | Sweden’s first to promote beer (5) | STOUT* (OUTSTAY) | S+TOUT |
| 11D | All of us start to educate baby (3) | WEE | WE+E |
| 14D | Cheat part of the church in conversation (5) | KNAVE | hp of NAVE |
| 16D | Athenian character’s rights removed from linguistic study (5) | GAMMA | GRAMMAR-R-R |
| 17D | Historian from Turkey arranged art evenly (9) | TREVELYAN | (ART EVENLY)* |
| 19D | Refuse to redecorate all senior homes at first (5) | TRASH* (ASHTRAY) | To Redecorate All Senior Homes |
| 20D | Tailless bovine eats cooked fowl and a portion of soup, say (7) | BOWLFUL | B(FOWL*)ULL-L |
| 22D | Powder laundry’s no-waste contents (3, 4) | DRY SNOW | launDRY’S NO-Waste |
| 23D | Oaf left unconscious (4) | LOUT* (OUTLAY) | L+OUT |
| 25D | One politician’s naughty child (3) | IMP | I+MP |
| 26D | Some people uneventfully fixed up location (5) | VENUE | peoplE UNEVentfully< |
| 28D | Essentially, buses operate (3) | USE | bUSEs |
Here’s the list of Top Scorers (For the full list, please check the Leaderboard in the Hall of Fame)
Out of 36 solvers, 15 got the full score. Each of the following scored 164 points (Grid Score – 154, Bonus – 10).
Al Sanders
Anantakrishnan N.
Bhalchandra Pasupathy
Himanshu Rajurkar
Koteswar Rao
Melissa McSeismal
Mona Sogal
Mukundala Balasubramanyam
Prakash Arumugam
Rathnakumar V
Samit Kallianpur
Sparsh Sinha
Supriya Mithal
Tejas Siddharth
Venkatraghavan S
Congrats to the toppers and to all the solvers who participated.
Grid Rating: The puzzle got an excellent rating of 8.71. It got 9 perfect 10s (26% of those who rated). The lowest rating was 6.
Favorite Clues: The Top clues were
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- Fashionable, like old shade of blue (6) – 11 votes
- 100% sulphur-free soy blend (5) – 9 votes
- Now you achievers composed a question of assistance (3, 3, 1, 5, 3) – 9 votes
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Fantastic concept and execution by Mathrix. Really appreciate how Mathrix is able to come up with many innovative ideas in each of his grids.
I was really stumped by this puzzle and found it quite challenging. Am so impressed by all our clever solvers who cracked it to perfection. In the test solve version, the code to crack also had to be cracked using the circled letters, but I felt that might make it too hard. Tell me what you think about that.
Here’s what our solvers said..
| Name | Comments / Feedback on the puzzle |
|---|---|
| Anantakrishnan N. | Excellent puzzle |
| Jyothish Balakrishnan | Top class. A great source of enjoyment. |
| Mona Sogal | Absolutely enjoyed the brain exercise… loved the way the whole grid came together.. Although I had heard about Pig Latin had never understood it in this detail- now my granddaughter and I speak only in Pig Latin!!!Great show– keep more coming! |
| Mukundala Balasubramanyam | Excellent puzzle |
| Sparsh Sinha | Great puzzle. Thoroughly enjoyed |
| Veera Raghavan | Nice, interesting puzzle. Must have been painstakingly set with entries in Pig Latin. Well done Mathrix! |
| Venkatesan P. | Great idea. As per Pig Latin translation rule, as I understand, the Pig Latin words for WILE (1A), WALL(10A), WONDER(31A) and WEAR(1D) will be ILEWAY, ALLWAY, ONDERWAY and EARWAY respectively. As the author has mentioned in the preamble that the phonetic translation will always result in another common English word, I have entered the solutions for the above four words as AISLEWAY, ALWAY, UNDERWAY and AIRWAY. |
| Al Sanders | Fun puzzle, nice clean grid |
| Bhalchandra Pasupathy | Very interesting puzzle and a fun game element, one that I haven’t come across before. Good deception in clues. A comment to only a couple of them: For RANGE both meanings seem to imply the same, so not truly a DD? And couldn’t see how Turkey was relevant for TREVELYAN, not sure what I’m missing |
| Lakshmi Vaidyanathan | Nice puzzle |
| Madhup Tewari | A beautiful puzzle! Very enjoyable. |
| Nagendra Prasad R. | FUN PUZZLE |
| Rathnakumar V | Interesting |
| Sandhya Paruchuri | Fun one! |
| Arvind Ramaswamy | Very interesting themed grid. Loved it. Got stumped by 1A for the longest part. Guessed it but not sure the enum is right (from the reversal of the answer, the original enum, I think should be 6. Or maybe I missed out some special rule in Piglatin??) because of this one, one bonus q is also at stake. Also the Wall –> Alway not sure about the translation. But overall UPERSAY UNFAY UZZLEPAY |
| Koteswar Rao | LIKED THE SECRET CODE |
| Max Jackson | An idea I haven’t seen for a long time. Some nice convoluted clues. It’s not clear whether you want the letters from the circles or the original. |
| Narayana Swamy D | Nice clues particularly 1a and 10a |
| Narayanan R | Super grid and different one |
| Prakash Arumugam | Delightful clues. Ankthay ouyay , ianyay |
| Ramesh Swaminathan | Easy to begin with got challenging to complete. Fun concept “pig latin” took time to get used to it. Nice idea. |
| Ramki Krishnan | Nice challenge. |
| Samit Kallianpur | Very nice grid! Some good clues in there! Had to brush up my pig latin lol |
| Supriya Mithal | Entertaining grid with an interesting concept ,many challenging but fair clues. |
| Tejas Siddharth | Otnay uresay ywhay ethay itletay isyay illstay utbay everthelessnay anyay interestingyay uzzlepay. Owhay isyay ethay evelyantray inyay uestionqay, ouldn’tcay indfay anyway omfray urkeytay. |
| Venkatraghavan S | Nice grid, although not a fan of Pig Latin myself. 🙂 |