Special, Sunday 02 Feb 2014, 5th Anniversary Prize Jumbo, Col Deepak Gopinath

INSTRUCTIONS

1.  Since this is a prize crossword, no comments on the solutions to be shown anywhere on the blog. I will be moderating the comments between 8 AM on 02 Feb and 8 PM on 03 Feb so that no one inadvertently reveals a solution.

2.  Solutions may be sent to my e-mail : deepakgita@gmail.com in the following formats  :-

     (a) Screen shot or an image of the completed grid  or

     (b) As a word document (Annotated solutions will have to be in this format).

     

3.   Following prizes will be given. Only one prize per head [to ensure that Mohsin doesn't bag both :-)], by chance in case someone wins more than one then prize at (a) below will go to the next person selected at random.

      (a) Prize for all correct entry. This prize winner will be a computerised random selection from the all
      correct entries.

      (b) Prize for the first entry with correct annotations (annos to match with annos as intended by me).

     

4.  Entries will be received till 8 PM (as per my computer clock) on 03 Feb 2014.

5.  Results with solutions will be displayed on the 5th anniversary of the blog i.e., at 8 AM on 04 Feb 2014. The regular blog of 04 Feb will appear at 9 AM.

6.   Each entry to be accompanied with a soft copy of your photograph, postal address and contact numbers.

7.  My decision as sole judge  (I have my wife's permission to say so), will be final and binding and cannot be contested in any court :-)

ACROSS

1   – Umlauts are modern with polar reversal, provided one is inside (9)

6   – Making ready for action peacekeeper’s member sheltering the second half (11)

12 – Jockey ring, all needed, used to lace meat with fat (7,6)

13 – Shallow basket with small mollusc (7)

14 – Man as Prince of Wales’ heaths (6)

15 – Kettle of fish repast for dog’s dinner (4)

16 – Aromatic plant? Capital flower (4,5)

18 – Sweet dish brings out expression of surprise, using damp dishcloth initially laundered (9,7)

20 – Primarily the route undertaken easily was exact (4)

22 – Expunge power inside to exhaust (7)

24 – Merge, to capitulate over a greenhorn at home (5,2)

26 – Positive or negative stimulus primarily inside nascent programs undergoing testing (5)

27 – Cooked-up stories one found tucked in with reference to a cooking appliance (10)

29 – I get social, remarkably exercising an ‘I’ specialist’s trait (10)

32 – Boarded transport to go north (3,2)

33 – Drink for a careless abstainer losing Bachelor of Arts from the US (7)

34 – Football player left in a sewer (7)

36 – A troublesome situation to over-infuse (4)

37 – Unruliness shocked our present bosses (16)

41 – Having lots of space reportedly most cold and damp (9)

42 – 27 is used in this (4)

44 – Shower liberally to look narrowly by proxy inside (6)

46 – Make up an aircraft belly landing (7)

47 – Gloriously almost sick with passionate desire, seriously, without limited sex (13)

48 – Lever the French with unknown cane extract sweet (6,5)

49 – Whisk, for example, German speculator taking note (3,6)

DOWN

1   – Drink turned over, about deficient detective being turned over (6,5)

2   – Do away with backward row to get more dishonest (7)

3   – One class without a student observed in free preparation (9)

4   – Nits for example with hollow goods (4)

5   – Refuse-basket for South Indian first lady (5)

6   – Foreign dudes put in are not challenged (10)

7   – Bled with percolated report (7)

8   – Incorrect articulation by short young lady and professional sister at agency initially taking it on (16)

9   – Supplies base with knick-knacks (6)

10 – Area between 23.4378 N and S (13)

11 – Greek not at all difficult, but most slippery (9)

17 – I am a writer of alternate letters and competent over a headland having an impervious feature (16)

19 – Hold fast below a pronounced stone chest (7)

21 – Where money is coined time after time (4)

23 – Short small-made from French derisive remark over a French meal (5-8)

25 – Remove cooking deposits with electric flux, for example, to be idle (7)

28 – Appropriate surreptitiously moral transgression of King (4)

30 – Noble’s plea is what the messiah taught his disciples (5,6)

31 – Distraught Nicole wore a temperature lowering apparatus (4,6)

32 – Air, say but turn back to head off drop inside an upscale restaurant cum bar (9)

35 – Escaroles used to prepare a dish (9)

38 – Making lace with that thing when husband is absent (7)

39 – Elaborate exhibition model (7)

40 – Setter’s confession of being ashen and run through (6)

43 – To follow every other teen is rude (5)

45 – Brick kiln waste for beer down under (4)

To attempt the crossword on a separate page follow the link 5th ANNIVERSARY PRIZE JUMBO

All the best.