Stats: 57 solvers attempted this puzzle. 37 solvers managed to complete the puzzle and submitted the bonus forms as well. Only 25 solvers got the full score.

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Bonus Questions: The NINA in the puzzle:

Ans

TOLSTOY

5 themed entries:

Ans

WAR AND PEACE, SNOWSTORM, GODSON, BERRIES, DEVIL

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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 57 solvers,  37 completed and submitted the grid and bonus forms, of which 25 got the full score. Each of the following scored 158 points (Grid Score – 152,  Bonus – 6).

Al Sanders
Arnav V Raju
Ashit Hegde
D Narayana Swamy
Devi Prasad
Harish T.K.
Ian J VanderSchee
Lakshmi Prakash
Loks Subrahmanyam
Madhup Tewari
Madhusudan H Rao
Max Jackson
Mona Sogal
Narayanan R
Nilesh Parmar
Panyam Tejas
Paul Henderson
Prakash Arumugam
Ramachandra Nagendra Prasad
Ramki Krishnan
Ratnakumar V
Samit Kallianpur
Sohil Bhagat
Sparsh Sinha
Venkatraghavan S

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

Grid Rating: The puzzle got an excellent rating of 8.3. It was rated a perfect 10 by 6 out of the 37 folks who voted (16%). The lowest rating was 5.

Favourite Clues:  The Top clues were

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3. 10A Bit of oomph in latest Chinese liquor (6) (8 votes)
4. 1A Found dad caught a rodent (7,4) (7 votes)
5. 17A Abandoned atheism after Henry, becoming a bit religious, found God (7) (7 votes)

Thanks Veeyares. Interesting theme and well executed. The solvers ratings and the comments in the thread below  

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