Firstly I would like to thank all the followers of the blog, this blog would never have lasted so long without your support. Special thanks to so many of you who have been staunch followers from the day I began this blog ten years ago on 04 Feb 2009.
As a precursor to the 10th Anniversary of the blog the special today is a 21 x 21 community effort by the following in Alphabetical order.
Aakash Sridhar, Abhay Phadnis, Ajeesh VM, Dr Ami Deokar, Amrita Majumdar, Dr Ashit Hegde, Dr Ashwini Nabar, Balaji Agoram, Bhalachandra Pasupathy, Bhavan Kumar, Col Deepak Gopinath, AR Devanathan, Fraser Simpson, Dr Jyotsna Deo, Kishore M Rao, K Koteswara Rao, Lakshmi Vaidyanathan, Mona Sogal, Dr Mukund Jagannathan, Ramesh Jagannathan, Ramki Krishnan, CG Rishikesh, Dr Satyen Nabar, Shrikanth T, Sowmya Ramkumar, Srinidhi Vasant, Sudarsan Balaji, Supriya Mithal, Vasant Sreenivasan, Vinayak Ekbote, Venkatesh Prabhakar.
Comments for this crossword are closed. Everyone is requested to solve the same and send me a screenshot of your solution on my email ID. Winner will be picked from amongst the all correct entries. Alongwith your submission please vote for the top three clues of your choice.
Your replies should reach me by Friday 08 Feb 19.
I will put up the CW again for solving as a special at 10:30 AM on 10 Feb along with the results giving the name of the winner randomly picked from the all correct entries and the name of the setters of the top three clues based on your votes.
ACROSS
1 Sad miss by winger (8)
6 Vicious retort left by retired comic is second to none (10)
13 Never break bottle! (5)
14 Time to retire staff with debts at firm (9)
15 The next symphony Beethoven might have written? (5)
16 Lasting defeat I’d brought about among nubile cast (12)
18 Type of gun lacking energy's used around university to produce another type of gun (4)
19 Believe God lies within self (3)
21 Ice pan lifted in exceptional praise (5)
23 Woman asked for time husband left Church (5)
25 Many abandoned failure for bright young thing (3)
27 Setter, asked to assess, got angry (5)
29 Regrettably about to kiss cousin, practically dashed bawdy (9)
31 Initially the work over for a number (3)
32 Will 's asleep ? Not exactly! (6)
34 Mature libertine Pirandellian looking inward in retirement (5)
35 Empty garret accommodates first class carriage (4)
36 Wind cord around wide joint (4)
38 Paramount, say, wants set cleared out for advanced recording (5)
40 Almighty Bolt blows away amateur in trial (6)
41 Disgusting! Revolutionary habit without appeal (3)
42 Longshoreman and Jobs party again (9)
45 Dress material for pretty daughter (5)
46 Sure, they equalize scores in closing stages (3)
47 Store auditor's money (5)
49 Doctor Alan's way of speaking (5)
50 Members of playschool, obviously shy (3)
52 Look high and low for company doctor (4)
54 Spreading intolerance and extremes of bias! Not new for parties (12)
59 Pace maintained by a contemporary (5)
60 Clear about life after spending half of it being unaware (9)
61 Former religious head (5)
62 They illuminate V-8's casing evenly in grey line (4,6)
63 Bird that's half bacon (8)
DOWN
2 Brilliant learner surprisingly hired after he's dismissed by university (5)
3 Adam's wife is in the vehicle (3)
4 Start from the centre of peppermint roll (5)
5 Romeo and Juliet, not taking sides in feud, found flirting (3,4)
6 Very old conservative gangster is forthright (5)
7 Some witch-owned Chinese dog (4)
8 Actors act here in the beginning (5)
9 Invite nice nurse at busy hospital department (9,4,4)
10 Bones turned up in soybean lunch (5)
11 Birthday girl arrives, maybe by Sunday latest (11)
12 Video about recoiling gun (7)
17 Cost-friendly car to rent? Seemingly impossible (4-13)
20 Lounge for a haircut (4)
22 Exercise is permitted to recover and sharpen the dog and bone (9)
23 Perhaps question married couple on order (3)
24 Don't love heat generation (4)
26 Father overjoyed to emerge quickly (3-2)
28 Thorough fool takes one pair to America (9)
30 Sports equipment obtained by secretly asking (3)
33 Transfer of property in favour of poor recluse having nothing (11)
35 Awkward week had by the composer of “The Beggar’s Opera” (5)
37 Man’s worth isn’t innate (3)
39 Smart watch I can text from (4)
41 Silence follows bachelor's party (4)
43 Gaze at some grey egrets (3)
44 Female leaves vanity,finds purpose (7)
48 Leading man found in bed with cigar (7)
51 Returning alumnus receives honour? Sweet! (5)
53 Low Long Island radish (5)
55 Oriental Vase rolls to edge of roof (5)
56 Some seawater is eroding vertical pipe (5)
57 Old kind of biscuits kept in reserve (2,3)
58 Boring leaders babble like absurd humbugs (4)
61 Discharge patients under supervision for starters (3)
Enjoy.