{"id":1047,"date":"2025-06-27T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2025-06-22T20:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T03:07:30","slug":"puzzle-137-crocus-pocus-flower-power-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/27\/puzzle-137-crocus-pocus-flower-power-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #137: Crocus Pocus (flower power variant!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MV0F_XiR48Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>PUZZLE LINK:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/variety-solver?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/crocus_pocus.vpuz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hey, look, it&#8217;s a puzzle that looks like a flower power but isn&#8217;t quite. Here are the instructions for this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The answer to each clue in this puzzle is five letters long and should be entered in a curve starting in the correspondingly numbered space and proceeding clockwise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you like flower power puzzles, we&#8217;re offering one as part of the charity puzzle pack we&#8217;re giving to anyone who makes a donation of any size to <a href=\"https:\/\/runsignup.com\/alexboisvert\/Donate\">Alex&#8217;s triathlon fundraiser<\/a>. Some really good stuff in there, don&#8217;t miss out!<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you like acrostic puzzles? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/crosswordnexus\">Join our Patreon!<\/a><br \/>\nDo you want a place to discuss puzzles? <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/ep2J3KXcmM\">Join our Discord!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/variety-solver?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/crocus_pocus.vpuz\">Enjoy the solve!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUZZLE LINK: Online Solver Hey, look, it&#8217;s a puzzle that looks like a flower power but isn&#8217;t quite. Here are the instructions for this one: The answer to each clue in this puzzle is five letters long and should be entered in a curve starting in the correspondingly numbered space and proceeding clockwise. If you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/27\/puzzle-137-crocus-pocus-flower-power-variant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #137: Crocus Pocus (flower power variant!)&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flower-power","category-puzzles","category-variety-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}