{"id":1190,"date":"2026-08-28T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2026-08-22T09:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:30:30","slug":"puzzle-157-poppy-goes-the-weasel-flower-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/28\/puzzle-157-poppy-goes-the-weasel-flower-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #157: Poppy Goes The Weasel (flower power)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-ElSV7LojsM\" 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\/poppy_goes_the_weasel.vpuz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I made a flower power puzzle! But how, you ask? Well, it&#8217;s quite easy now with our <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.github.io\/variety-tools\/flower-power\/index.html\">Flower Power tools<\/a> and the brand-new <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.github.io\/variety-constructor\/\">Crossword Nexus Variety Constructor<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1191 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-22-at-9.16.50-AM-300x135.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-22-at-9.16.50-AM-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-22-at-9.16.50-AM-1024x461.png 1024w, https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-22-at-9.16.50-AM-768x346.png 768w, https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-22-at-9.16.50-AM-1536x692.png 1536w, https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-22-at-9.16.50-AM-2048x922.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/>The variety constructor is a new project, the heavy lifting for which was done by <a href=\"https:\/\/ingrid.cx\/\">Ryan Fitzgerald&#8217;s Ingrid<\/a>, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rf-\/ingrid_core\">backend is open-source<\/a>. The variety constructor allows you to interactively create a puzzle of basically any type, as long as you know where the words will be placed ahead of time.<\/p>\n<p>The key to setting up how the words interact is via a &#8220;batch file&#8221;, terminology we borrowed from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quinapalus.com\/crux.html\">Crux<\/a> and its successor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quinapalus.com\/qxw.html\">Qxw<\/a>. If you&#8217;re interested, the syntax is laid out pretty well in the Crux page. I&#8217;ve been told it&#8217;s relatively intuitive; at least, it&#8217;s more intuitive than <a href=\"https:\/\/crossword-nexus.github.io\/umiaq\/\">Umiaq<\/a> is. Try it out!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, we do have a puzzle today. It&#8217;s a flower power! Here&#8217;s how it works:<\/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 on the outside and curving in towards the center of the flower. Each numbered space is the start of two answers, one curving clockwise and the other counterclockwise.<\/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:\/\/www.every.org\/chla\/f\/alexs-chla-triathlon\">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\/poppy_goes_the_weasel.vpuz\">Enjoy the solve!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUZZLE LINK: Online Solver I made a flower power puzzle! But how, you ask? Well, it&#8217;s quite easy now with our Flower Power tools and the brand-new Crossword Nexus Variety Constructor! The variety constructor is a new project, the heavy lifting for which was done by Ryan Fitzgerald&#8217;s Ingrid, whose backend is open-source. The variety&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/28\/puzzle-157-poppy-goes-the-weasel-flower-power\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #157: Poppy Goes The Weasel (flower power)&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":[4,58,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crossword-tools","category-flower-power","category-puzzles","category-variety-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","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=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}