“Lost” by Veeyares was our eighth grid for 2026.

Stats: 52 solvers attempted this puzzle.  44 solvers managed to complete the puzzle and the bonus forms as well. As many as 21 solvers got the full score.

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Bonus Questions: 1. The word after anagramming extra letters (9)

Ans

DESTROYED

2-6. The five entries connected to the theme

Ans

BABYLON, POMPEII, ZEUS STATUE, ANGKOR WAT, COLOSSUS

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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 52 solvers,  44 completed and submitted the grid and bonus forms, of which 21 got the full score. Each of the following scored 162 points (Grid Score – 156,  Bonus – 6).

Aashwina Mouli

Abhay Phadnis

Arvind Ramaswamy

Ashit Hegde

Jyothish Balakrishnan

Krittibas Dasgupta

Madhup Tewari

Mona Sogal

Narayanan R

Panyam Tejas

Paul Henderson

Prakash Arumugam

Ramachandra Nagendra Prasad

Ramki Krishnan

Ratnakumar V

Rengaswamy Narasimhan

Samit Kallianpur

Sampath Shrinivasan

Sparsh Sinha

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 8 out of the 44 folks who voted (18%). The lowest rating was 6.

Favourite Clues:  The Top clues were

1. 13A.Gang mostly at work renovating old temple (6,3) – 15 votes
2. 9A.Giant locust mostly repeatedly flying around (8) – 10 votes
3. 19A.Blouse initially used for shirt in notably strange old city (7) – 10 votes
4. 30A.This colour is different unlike bit of greenish black (4,4) – 9 votes
5. 5A.Associate, even after eating nothing, is buoyant (6) – 7 votes

Thanks Veeyares. Great theme idea and execution. The solvers ratings and the comments in the thread below