India, Sept. 22 -- The Indian Crossword League, or IXL, is in progress. The second of 10 online rounds is currently live, with the subsequent rounds due every Sunday. The competition will end with a live contest in December among the 30 toppers of the online rounds.

The method of scoring in the online rounds carries the unmistakable promise of a puzzle. Points based on a percentile basis are awarded to the participants. You need to mind both your accuracy and your time. The earliest all-correct entrant goes to the top of the leaderboard with 100 points, the second one gets 99, and so on until every all-correct entrant has been accounted for. Say there are 70 of them. No #71 on the leaderboard, say with one mistake, is the earliest one to...