Special, Tuesday 04 Feb 2014, 5th Anniversary Prize special results

Thanks go out to all those who comment/visit this blog and who have helped the blog to flourish over the past four years. 

Thanks also to all who participated in the prize special which was posted on Sunday, though I would have liked many more entries. 

Given below is the chronological list of entries received.

1. Kishore M Rao

2. Mohsin Ahmed 

3. Dr Srinvasaraghava Venkatesh (All correct)

4. Sandhya P (All correct)

5. Bhalachandra Pasupathy (All correct)

6. Prof Nadathur S Rangarajan(All correct)

7. Raju Umamaheshwar

8. Anish Madhavan (All correct)
9. Rengaswamy Narasimhan
10. Sowmya Ramkumar
11. Vinayak Ekbote
12. Richard Lasrado
13. Mukundala Balasubramanyam 

...... and the winners are

RANDOM DRAW FROM ALL CORRECT SOLUTIONS (Prize: MGR a Biography by Shrkanth Veeravalli  )

Anish Madhavan

 

FIRST ALL CORRECT ANNOTATED SOLUTION (Prize: PARKER Vector Metallix pen )

Sandhya P

PS: Actually none got all right but Sandhya was the closest.

Congratulations to both of you on behalf of the entire THCC gang

Given below is the solution grid and the annotated answers interspersed with some cartoons from Kishore

ACROSS

1   – Umlauts are modern with polar reversal, provided one is inside (9) MODIFIERS {MOD{IF}{1}ER(-n+s)S}

6   – Making ready for action peacekeeper’s member sheltering the second half (11) – UNLIMBERING (UN}{LIMB}{(-shelt)ERING}

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

13 – Shallow basket with small mollusc (7) SCUTTLE {S}{CUTTLE}

14 – Man as Prince of Wales’ heaths (6) ERICAS {ERIC}{AS}

15 – Kettle of fish repast for dog’s dinner (4) MESS [MD]

16 – Aromatic plant? Capital flower (4,5) HERB PARIS {HERB} {PARIS}

18 – Sweet dish brings out expression of surprise, using damp dishcloth initially laundered (9,7) CHRISTMAS PUDDING {CHRIST}{USING+DAMP+D*}

20 – Primarily the route undertaken easily was exact (4) TRUE {T}{R}{U}{E}

22 – Expunge power inside to exhaust (7) DEPLETE {DE{P}LETE}

24 – Merge, to capitulate over a greenhorn at home (5,2) BLEND IN {B{L}END} {IN}

26 – Positive or negative stimulus primarily inside nascent programs undergoing testing (5) INPUT {I}{N}{P}{U}{T}

27 – Cooked-up stories one found tucked in with reference to a cooking appliance (10) ROTISSERIE {STORIES*}{R{1}E}

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

32 – Boarded transport to go north (3,2)  GOT ON {TO+GO*}{N} or {TO+GO+N}*

33 – Drink for a careless abstainer losing Bachelor of Arts from the US (7) RETSINA (-ab)STAINER*

34 – Football player left in a sewer (7) TACKLER {TACK{L}ER}

36 – A troublesome situation to over-infuse (4) STEW [DD]

37 – Unruliness shocked our present bosses (16) – OBSTREPEROUSNESS*

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

42 – 27 is used in this (4) OVEN [CD]

44 – Shower liberally to look narrowly by proxy inside (6) PEPPER {PE{PP}ER}

46 – Make up an aircraft belly landing (7) PANCAKE [DD]

47 – Gloriously almost sick with passionate desire, seriously, without limited sex (13) ILLUSTRIOUSLY {IL(-l)}{LUST}{(-sex)RIOUSLY}

48 – Lever the French with unknown cane extract sweet (6,5) BARLEY SUGAR {BAR}{LE}{Y}{ SUGAR}

49 – Whisk, for example, German speculator taking note (3,6) EGG BEATER {EG}{G} {BEA{TE}R}

DOWN

1   – Drink turned over, about deficient detective being turned over (6,5) MULLED CIDER {MULLED} {(-k)CID}{ER}<=

2   – Do away with backward row to get more dishonest (7) DIRTIER {DIR<=}{TIER}

3   – One class without a student observed in free preparation (9) FRICASSEE {FR{1}{C(-l)ASS}EE}

4   – Nits for example with hollow goods (4) EGGS {EG}{G(-ood)S}

5   – Refuse-basket for South Indian first lady (5) SIEVE {SI}{EVE}

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

7   – Bled with percolated report (7) LEECHED (~leached)

8   – Incorrect articulation by short young lady and professional sister at agency initially taking it on (16) MISPRONUNCIATION {MIS(-s)}{PRO}{NUN}{CIA}{T}{I}{ON}

9   – Supplies base with knick-knacks (6) EQUIPS {E}{QUIPS}

10 – Area between 23.4378 N and S (13) INTERTROPICAL [CD]

11 – Greek not at all difficult, but most slippery (9) GREASIEST {GR}{EASIEST}

17 – I am a writer of alternate letters and competent over a headland having an impervious feature (16) IMPENETRABLENESS {I’M}{PEN}{(-l)E(-t)T(-e)R(-s)}{ABLE}{NESS}

19 – Hold fast below a pronounced stone chest (7) SUBSIST {SUB}{SIST}(~cist) [Many had this as 'cyst' which is incorrect]

21 – Where money is coined time after time (4) MINT {MIN}{T}

23 – Short small-made from French derisive remark over a French meal (5-8) PETIT-DEJEUNER {PETIT(-e)}-{DE}{JE{UN}ER}

25 – Remove cooking deposits with electric flux, for example, to be idle (7) DEGLAZE {D}{EG}{LAZE}

28 – Appropriate surreptitiously moral transgression of King (4) SINK {SIN}{K}

30 – Noble’s plea is what the messiah taught his disciples (5,6) LORD’S PRAYER {LORD’S} {PRAYER}

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

32 – Air, say but turn back to head off drop inside an upscale restaurant cum bar (9) GASTROPUB {GAS}{T{(-d)ROP}UB<=}

35 – Escaroles used to prepare a dish (9) CASSEROLE*

38 – Making lace with that thing when husband is absent (7)TATTING {T(-h)AT}{T(-h)ING}

39 – Elaborate exhibition model (7) EXPOSIT {EXPO}{SIT}

40 – Setter’s confession of being ashen and run through (6) IMPALE {I’M}{PALE}

43 – To follow every other teen is rude (5) ENSUE {(-t)E(-e)N} {(-i)S} {(-r)U(-d)E}

45 – Brick kiln waste for beer down under (4) GROG [DD] [Answered as DREG by many]

Tail piece : The CW also had a Pangram with themed entries of Food & Drinks built in from the consummate foodie that's me.

Special thanks to Chaturvasi for test solving this Jumbo and finally thanks once again to those who participated and also to those who didn't :-)