“Me Who Loved the Spy” by Aquifer was our 15th grid for the season
Stats: 53 solvers attempted this puzzle. 40 solvers managed to complete the puzzle and submitted the bonus forms as well. 1 solver did not complete the bonus form. Only 20 solvers got the full score.
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Bonus Questions: The theme connecting 10 of the entries, as indicated by the title:
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BOND WOMEN/BOND GIRLS. MONEYPENNY (all Bond films) HONEY RYDER, SYLVIA TRENCH (both Dr No; Trench also appears in From Russia With Love) VESPER LYND (Casino Royale) TRACY BOND (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service) PUSSY GALORE (Goldfinger) SOLITAIRE, MAY DAY (both Live and Let Die) WAI LIN, PARIS CARVER (both Tomorrow Never Dies)
A single-word theme entry that has a meaning listed in any regular dictionary:
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SOLITAIRE
A two-word theme entry that has a meaning listed in any regular dictionary:
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MAY DAY
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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 53 solvers, 41 completed and submitted the grid and 40 completed both the grid and bonus forms, of which 20 got the full score. Each of the following scored 161 points (Grid Score – 158, Bonus – 3).
Al Sanders
Ashit Hegde
Ian J VanderSchee
Lakshmi Prakash
Max Jackson
Mona Sogal
Narayanan R
D Narayana Swamy
Nilesh Parmar
Panyam Tejas
Paul Henderson
Ramachandra Nagendra Prasad
Ramki Krishnan
Ratnakumar V
Samit Kallianpur
Sandhya Paruchuri
Sparsh Sinha
Veera Raghavan Sundararajan
P. Venkatesan
Venkatraghavan S
Congrats to the toppers and to all the solvers who participated.
Grid Rating: The puzzle got a fabulous rating of 8.8. It was rated a perfect 10 by 10 out of the 40 folks who voted (25%). The lowest rating was 6.
Favourite Clues: The Top clues were
- 10A Spy’s wife recalled being hosted by Ford—no, by Carter (5, 4) (9 votes)
- 32A Drunk O Henry ready to kill a legend who rises from the sea (5, 5) (9 votes)
- 29A Sadly I lost Re 1 at curtailed game (9) (8 votes)
- 8D MI6 veteran on tail of sharp enemy going to New York (10) (7 votes)
- 19A Spy’s tragic ex parking a Sierra vehicle in Missouri perhaps (5, 6); (7 votes)
Thanks Aquifer. Such a fun theme and another fantastic grid fill with so many themed entries. Thoroughly enjoyed it. The solvers ratings and the comments in the thread below
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