“Press button to Refresh” by Amygdala was our eleventh grid for 2026.

Stats: 59 solvers attempted this puzzle. 38 solvers managed to complete the puzzle and the bonus forms as well. Only 26 solvers got the full score.

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Bonus Questions: 1. What is the twelve letter word related to the title?:

Ans

REJUVENATING

2. What is the central letter among the 10?

Ans

N

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Here’s the list of Top Scorers (For the full list, please check the Leaderboard in the Hall of Fame)

Out of 59 solvers,  38 completed and submitted the grid and bonus forms, of which 26 got the full score.

Each of the following scored 157 points (Grid Score – 152,  Bonus – 5).

Al Sanders
Amita Annette Joseph
Arnav V Raju
Ashit Hegde
Binay Patra
Himanshu Rajurkar
Ian J VanderSchee
Jose A
Lakshmi Prakash
Max Jackson
Mona Sogal
NARAYANAN R
Narayana Swamy D
Nilesh Parmar
Panyam Tejas
Prakash Arumugam
Ramachandra Nagendra Prasad
Ramesh Ss
Ramki Krishnan
Ratna Rao
Ratnakumar V
Rengaswamy Narasimhan
Samit Kallianpur
Sampath Shrinivasan
Sandhya Paruchuri
Venkatraghavan S

Congrats to the toppers and to all the solvers who participated.

Grid Rating: The puzzle got a solid rating of 8.5. It was rated a perfect 10 by 7 out of the 38 folks who voted (18%). The lowest rating was 5.

Favourite Clues:  The Top clues were

1. 5A Explosive piece about lousy egg price (7) – 10 votes
2. 11A Endlessly intrigued with very new tool (5,3) – 9 votes
3. 4D She complains a lot through drive across river(6) – 7 votes
4. 15A Beast in a new US playhouse strikes hard (8) – 7 votes
5. 16D Most reliable lawyer finally managed suit in trial (9) – 6 votes
6. 2D Getting closer finish in marathon without tiring? (7) – 6 votes
7. 29A Flying black object loses height (7) – 6 votes

Thanks Amygdala. Interesting concept that was well executed. Enjoyed solving it and look forward to more from you. The solvers ratings and the comments in the thread below