“Flower Power” from “Veeyares” is our twenty-second grid for this season.
Stats: 59 solvers attempted this puzzle. 45 solvers completed the puzzle and bonus forms. Only 37 solvers got the full score.
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Bonus Questions:
- Identify the theme (6)
Ans:Rivers
Annotations
| Clue No. | Word | Clue | Annotation |
| Across | |||
| 1 | Colorado | Terribly love old car, a bit overhauled(8)* | (O OLD CAR O)* |
| 5 | Gambia | Girl, a doctor starts to initiate action (6)* | G A MB I A |
| 10 | Lemming | Not husband, it is lady cornering the rodent! (7) | L for H in Hemming. Def: Rodent |
| 11 | Warbler | Bird starts to whistle actively, regularly by late evenings, rocks! (7) | Acrostic |
| 12 | Indus | At home son taking drug regularly (5)* | D.U. in IN S |
| 13 | Irrawaddy | New ward airy after introducing windows essentially (9)* | (WARD AIRY D)*. New: anagrind |
| 14 | Congo | Run after cheat? (5)* | GO<=>CON |
| 15 | Amazon | Mazagon building no gunships basically (6)* | (MAZAGON-G)*. Building: anagrind |
| 20 | Income | From the origin comet returns (6) | (T). From: container indicator |
| 21 | Rhine | Animal mostly feeds heartly (5)* | RHIN(o) E |
| 25 | Strenuous | Finally feels delicate to accept principal responsibility for taxing (9) | S T(R)ENUOUS |
| 27 | Rhone | Learner finally to improve | R HONE |
| 28 | Undoing | Open and spill gin? A disgrace! (7) | UNDO ING*. Spill: anagrind. Def:disgrace |
| 29 | Quintal | Q&A by lecturer about another unit for weight (7) | Q(UINT*)A L. Another: anagrind. Def: Weight |
| 30 | Irtysh | No love for History, sadly (6)* | (HISTORY-o)*. Sadly: anagrind |
| 31 | Setscrew | Fixes band to make fastener (9) | SETS CREW. Def: fastener |
| Down | |||
| 1 | Collie | Dog in clash not dead (6) | COLLIDE-D. Def: dog |
| 2 | Lambda | Letter from Greece sorting out a bedlam, police finally left (6) | (A BEDLAM-E)*. Def: letter from Greece |
| 3 | Rainstorm | Most rare, no mist formed in downpour (9) | (RAR NO MIST)*. Formed: anagrind. Def: downpour |
| 4 | Diggings | Likes to hug girls in trenches (8) | DI(GG IN)G S. Def: Quarries |
| 6 | Arrow | Most bother about retracting dart (5) | WORR(y) A(bout)<-. Retracting: reversal indicator. Def: dart |
| 7 | Bulldoze | Knock down drink, get dizzily dull, nothing’s lost (8) | (BOOZE-o) over ULLD*. Dizzily:anagrind. Def: knock down |
| 8 | Arraying | Grouping gar, ray, in order (8) | (GAR RAY IN)*. Order: anagrind. Def: grouping |
| 9 | Swarm | Oddly, some pick up fight in crowd (5) | WAR in S-M-. Def: crowd |
| 16 | Monorails | Transportations in most of Somalia with no restrictions, basically running | (SOMALI NO R)*. Running: anagrind . Def: transportations |
| 17 | Missouri | Madam is sour in stores (8) | (T). Stores: container indicator |
| 18 | Accredit | Accountant vigorously tried to get sanction (8) | ACC REDIT*. Vigorously: anagrind. Def: sanction |
| 19 | Physique | Doctor equips hospital pharmacy’s last structure (8) | (EQUIPS H Y)*. Doctor: anagrind. Def: structure |
| 22 | Volga | Log chopped up in Virginia (5) | V(OLG*)A. Chopped up: anagrind |
| 23 | Foster | Develop fundamentals of science to encourage research basically (6) | Acrostic. Basically: acrostic indicator. Def: develop |
| 24 | Yellow | Endlessly shout down (6)* | YEL(-l) LOW |
| 26 | Nail | Identifies knight’s problem (4) | N AILS. Def: identifies |
Here’s the list of Top Scorers (For the full list, please check the Leaderboard in the Hall of Fame)
Out of 59 solvers, 45 completed the puzzle though only 37 got the full score. Each of the following scored 162 points (Grid Score – 160, Bonus – 2).
Abhay Phadnis
Arun Hiregange
Arvind Ramaswamy
Ashit Hegde
Bhalchandra Pasupathy
D Narayana Swamy
Harish T.K.
Himanshu Rajurkar
Ian J VanderSchee
Jose A
Kiran Cheruku
Koteswara Rao Kolluru
Krittibas Dasgupta
Lakshmi Prakash
Madhup Tewari
Madhusudan H Rao
Max Jackson
Mona Sogal
Mukundala Balasubramanyam
NARAYANAN R
Nilesh Parmar
P. Venkatesan
Panyam Tejas
Paul Henderson
Prakash Arumugam
Ramesh Ss
Ramki Krishnan
Ratna Rao
Ratnakumar V
samit kallianpur
Sandhya Paruchuri
Shobha Nayak
Sparsh Sinha
Srinivas Nivarty
Steve Gunter
Supriya Mithal
Venkatraghavan S
Congrats to the toppers and to all the solvers who participated.
Grid Rating: The puzzle got a good rating of 8.4. It was rated a perfect 10 by 11 out of the 45 folks who voted (24%). The lowest rating was 5.
Favourite Clues: The Top clues were
- 29A Q&A by lecturer about another unit for weight (7) – 16 votes
- 25A Finally feels delicate to accept principal responsibility for taxing (9)- 9 votes
- 10A Not husband, it is lady cornering the rodent! (7)- 9 votes
- 19D Doctor equips hospital pharmacy’s last structure (8)- 8 votes
- 1D Dog in clash not dead (6)- 7 votes
Great grid with a superb grid construction maximizing theme entries. Good going Veeyares. Looking forward to some interesting puzzles from you in 2026 as well.
PS: The solvers comments are in the comments thread in the post.
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