Sunday, 10 February 2019

Special, Sunday 10 Feb 2019, 10th Anniversary Crossword Results and more



Thanks for the response to the 10th Anniversary Crossword Community Special Jumbo.

In all I received 26 solutions of which there were 21 all correct entries. Details as under

All correct
Dr Mukund Jagannathan
Prasad
Dr Satyen Nabar
Bhavan
Ramki
Vasant
Bhala
Sowmya
Rishi
KKR
Vinayak 
Supriya
MB
Neelima
Mona
Raju
Nagendra Prasad
Lakshmi Prakash
VA George
Dr Krishnamoorthy
Srinidhi
With errors 
Ramani 
Sreenivasan S 
Venkatesan
Padmanabhan
Jacob Brahmakulam

31 clues attracted votes towards the top three clues. Dr Satyen Nabar's clues (54A&9D) got 10 votes followed by Bhavan's clues (62A&17D) with 8 votes and Bhala's clues (29A&5D)with 7 votes. 

The other setters whose clues got mentioned were Shrikanth (6 votes), Supriya (5 votes), Aakash (5 votes), Ashit Hegde (4 votes), Koteswara Rao (4 votes), Ramki (4 votes), Fraser (4 votes), Devanathan (3 votes), Srinidhi (2 votes), Jyotsna (2 votes), Ramesh (2 votes)

Clues by Mona, Self, Abhay, Kishore, Sudarsan, Lakshmi and Ashwini got one vote each.

Winner from the all correct entries randomly picked using the 'Rand feature' of excel is Bhalachandra Pasupathy Congratulations. Your prize is winging it's way to you.

The winner for the top clue is Dr Satyen Nabar for his clue "Spreading intolerance and extremes of bias! Not new for parties (12)" which garnered 6 votes. Congratulations. Your prize is also winging it's way to you.

The Crossword is reproduced below for your solving pleasure.

5 answers per commenter as usual till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
Please provide all your answers in one comment.



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)

Across Lite version can be accessed at 10th ANNI CW

Enjoy.

64 comments:

  1. Congrats Dr. and Bhala! Some Excellent clues and a great grid!

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  2. Congratulations all .. a great grid :)
    49 A slang- alans*
    58 D blah - acrostic
    39 D chic - telescopic
    9D intensive care unit invitenicenirseat*

    Thank you Deepak Sir, for this wonderful grid :)
    11D anniversary- Ann arrives* y

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    1. If ICU is right, then 49A 'SLANG' does not fit in Mona Madam

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  3. 21A: EXTOL
    CA: (ICE PAN+EXTOL)*=EXCEPTIONAL
    22D: TELEPHONE (Cockney rhyme slang Dog and Bone=Telephone)
    (LET+PE)<+HONE
    40A: SORROW SO+(-a)RROW; Almighty=So and Bolt=Arrow
    38A: AUDIO
    (-st+A)UDIO
    17D: SELF-CONTRADICTORY
    (COST-FRIENDLY CAR TO)*

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  4. 14A: TENACIOUS {T}{CANE<==}{IOUS} = FIRM
    16A: INDISSOLUBLE {NUBILE}* around {LOSS<==}{ID<==} = LASTING
    54A: CELEBRATIONS {INTOLERANCE(-N)+{B..S}* = PARTIES
    17D: SELF-CONTRADICTORY {COST-FRIENDLY+CAR+TO}* = SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE
    63A: THRASHER {TH(-AT)}{RASHER(=BACON)} = BIRD

    Congrats winners!

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  5. Replacement for 17D:
    41d: BASH {BA(=BACHELOR)}{SH(=SILENCE)} = PARTY

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  6. Congratulations Satyen, Bhavan and Bhala!

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  7. Congrats Bhala on the double win and Satyen for two really nice clues.

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  8. Wow quite thrilled! Congrats Bhavan Bhala and all the setters. Lovely to be part of such a great grid. Thanks Col:)

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  9. Col: A typo to be corrected in the results - '55 A' as 55 D?

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  10. 29A SALACIOUS, ALAS <-- + {COUSI-(n)}*

    62A VERY LIGHTS; V-E {(-g)R(-e)Y + L} IGHTS

    5D DON JUAN; {AND + J + (-f)OUN(-d)}*

    44D (-f)UTILITY

    42A STEVE+DO+RE

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  11. I am at Delhi attending a wedding. Someone could please monitor periodically as to how many are left to be solved

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  12. 11D:Birthday girl arrives, maybe by Sunday latest (11)
    Anniversary meaning Birthday
    Ann is your regular crossword girl
    Then anagram(maybe) Arrives
    Add Y last letter of sundaY

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  13. 33D Transfer of property in favour of poor recluse having nothing (11)
    Foreclosure meaning Transfer of Property
    For is In favour of
    Insert(having) O(nothing) in Anagram of(poor) Recluse

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  14. 28D Thorough fool takes one pair to America (9)
    Assiduous meaning Thorough
    Ass is Fool
    Add I Duo US (one pair America)

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  15. 23D Perhaps question married couple on order (3)
    Who which is perhaps a question
    Married couple are Wife & Husband represented by W and H they are on O(order)
    Nice Clue!

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  16. 23A Woman asked for time husband left Church (5)
    Wench meaning Woman
    H( Husband) leave When ( asked for time). Add Ch( Church)

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  17. 8D Actors act here in the beginning (5)
    Onset meaning in the beginning
    Actors act On Set

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  18. Congrats to Bhala & Dr. Satyan Nabar. Well- earned. Would love to know what prizes are being winged by the Blue bird ! Who but 5 are the all - correct or vice- versa?

    If there were 26 entrants, for whose benefit is the repeat today.?

    In any case, it was fun .

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  19. Remaining.
    Across: 1,6,13,15,18,19,25,27,31,32,34,35,36, 41,45,46,47,50,52,59,60
    Down:2,4,6,10,12,20,24,26,30,35,37,43,48,51,53,55,56,57,61

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  20. 61a : former religious head
    former = prior = relgious head
    3d : adam's wife is in thE VE hicle (EVE is hidden)

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  21. can someone pls help with steps to download the .puz file and load it in Across Lite ?
    I have downloaded Across Lite, but after multiple attempts still not able to losd the puz file in the same

    thanks in advance

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    1. Right Click on the Link given at the end of the clues.
      Choose Option Open in New Tab.
      Click on the image of Across Lite
      Two options will come: Open with Across Lite or Save. Choose the former.

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  22. thanks, works in safari but not in chrome

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  23. 1a- Bluebird-Winger
    Sad=blue
    Miss=Bird
    13a- Nerve-(Never)*
    15A- Tenth-CD
    19A-Ego-T
    27A-Irate-Angry
    Setter-I
    To assess-Rate

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  24. Thank you Col. for the interesting contest and congratulations on the Tenth Anniversary Celebrations 9as mentioned in the grid)
    Congratulations to all prize winners,more particularly for the clue writers. Thank you all.

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  25. 24 D HATE (anagram of heat)
    26 D pop up (father = pop, overjoyed = up, emerge quickly = pop up)
    14 = tenacious?
    Time to retire = ten
    Staff = ac(account) ( not fully sure of this)
    Debts at firm = IOUs

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  26. Refer Venkatesan's comment for solution of 14A.
    It is T for time and staff to retire is CANE=< T(ENAC)IOUS

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  27. Done after vasan's listing at 12.16
    Ac.- 1,13,15,19,27
    Dn.- 24 & 26
    Rest are still pending.

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  28. Thanks , and missed that 14A was already done-apologies

    So will go with one more
    6D = VOCAL
    (V)ery (o)ld (c)conservative (AL) (gangster = AL Capone)

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  29. Thanks to Deepak for the puzzle and to all setters and solvers for the community effort. Enjoyed this one

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  30. 1ac bluebird (blue) (bird)
    15ac tenth
    19ac ego (T)
    27ac irate i+rate(assess)
    24dn hate (heat)*

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    1. All 5 previously done; you can take 5 more

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  31. 34ac ripen reverse T
    30ac gait ai in gt (GareT)
    30ac whip w(ide)+hip (joint)
    6ac oblivious li(fe) in obvioudeal
    5ac tempo con(tempo)rary

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  32. Gait is 35A
    Whip is 36A
    Oblivious is 60A
    Tempo is 59A
    A few keys not working in your computer,mam?

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  33. Remaining at 2:30 PM:
    Across: 6,18,25,31,32,41,45,46,47,50,52
    Down:2,7,10,12,20,30,35,37,43,48,51,53,55,56,57,61

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  34. Still pending at 2.39-
    Ac.- 18,25,31,32,41,45,46,47,50,52
    Dn.- 2,4,10,12,20,30,35,37,43,48,51,53,55,56,57,61

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  35. 45AC TWEE D
    47AC CACHE ~cash
    12DN SHOOT ER<=
    35DN GA[WK]Y
    48DN C[HERO]OT

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  36. left over at 3.30 pm-
    Ac.- 18,31,32,41,50,52
    Dn.- 2,4,20,30,37,43,51,53,56,57,61

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  37. 41 A BAH ( Habit -it <-)
    50 A LOB ( T )
    2 D LURID ( Learner-L, (hired-he)* around university-U )
    4 D - INTRO (T)
    30 D SKI (T)

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  38. Left over- at 4.40 pm-
    Ac.- 18,25,46,52
    Dn.- 10,20,37,43,51,53,55,56,57,61

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  39. 25A FOP( flop-l)
    10D ULNAR (reverse telescopic)
    43D EYE (telescopic)
    55D EAVES (e+vase*)
    61D PUS (1st letter selection)

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    1. Just check up 10 D. The def.is bones in plural and ulnar does not match with crossings.

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    2. Sry.... I typed ulnar by mist
      Answer is ULNAE

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  40. 18a:stun(gun) – st(-e+u)n
    46a:yes(sure)(acrostic with end letters)
    52a:comb(lo….low) – (co+mb)
    20a:afro(haircut) – (for+a)*
    37d:his(T)
    53d:mooli(radish) – {(moo=low)+l+i}
    56d:riser(Vertical pipe)(T)
    57d: on ice(in reserve) – {(o)+(nice=Biscuits)}

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  41. The special message(it cannot be called a Nina as it is not hidden) is
    Tenth Anniversary Celebrations.
    Apposite message.

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  42. 51D seems to be left out. Anyone can take it and complete.
    Yes,Tenth Anniversary celebrations can easily be seen and rightly so!

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  43. Anyway, I have cleared my doubt.
    51D- Bombe which is a dessert.
    Returning alumnus is OB=< & honour is MBE.
    That completes it and thank you all.

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  44. That brings down the curtains of the Tenth Anniversary.
    Thank you everyone once again

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  45. Received the prize! Thank you Col and everyone :)

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  46. Received mine too and a very thoughtful one. Thanks Deepak and to all others once again.

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