“Family Man” from “Amygdala” is our eleventh grid for this season.

Stats: 56 solvers attempted this puzzle.  40 solvers completed the puzzle and the bonus forms. As many as 27 solvers got the full score.

Here is the Grid:
(Annotations will be visible on solving the puzzle or on clicking “Reveal Grid”. Logged in solvers can see their submissions as well)

Bonus Questions:

1. Topical celebration connected to the theme word in this puzzle (6’1,3)
   
   Solution

   Ans: Father’s day
   

2. 1st unclued word in the puzzle (3)
   
   Solution

   Ans: Dad
   

3. 2nd unclued word in the puzzle (3)
   
   Solution

   Ans: Pop
   

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

Out of 56 solvers,  40 completed fully and 27  got the full score. Each of the following scored 151 points (Grid Score – 148,  Bonus – 3).

Amita Annette Joseph
Arvind Ramaswamy
Ashit Hegde
Bhalchandra Pasupathy
Harish T K
Himanshu Rajurkar
Ian VanderSchee
Jose A
Koteswar Rao
Lakshmi Prakash
Madhup Tewari
Mona Sogal
Nagendra Prasad R.
Narayanan R
Nilesh Parmar
Paul Henderson
Prakash Arumugam
Ramki Krishnan
Rathnakumar V
Samit Kallianpur
Samraat Saxena
Sparsh Sinha
Supriya Mithal
Tulika Das
Veera Raghavan
Venkatesan P.
Venkatraghavan S

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

Grid Rating: The puzzle got a superb rating of 8.9. It was rated a perfect 10 by 14 out of the 40 folks who voted (35%). The lowest rating was 6.

Favourite Clues:  The Top clues were

1. 18D Does May live here ? (4,4) (22 votes)
2. 24A See resident European (4)? (10 votes)
3. 4D Smelly sweaters (7)? (8 votes)
4. 11A Acceptance of AI truly amazing (10) (7 votes)
5. 23A Endless obfuscation by media firing chief wrongly :Post (10) (7 votes)

Thanks Amygdala. That was a lovely puzzle with a clever theme and a very apt celebration for Father’s day. Terrific stuff and very enjoyable once you get the hang of it.

PS: The solvers comments are in the comments thread in the post itself.