15th Anniversary Community Crossword Prize Jumbo
I would like to make a special mention of Mr CG Rishikesh (Gridman), he was a great inspiration and help to me during the initial years of this blog and thereafter till the day he left for his heavenly abode on 14 Apr 2021.
On the 15th Anniversary of the blog the special today is a 21 x 21 community effort by the following in Alphabetical order.
Abhishek S, Ajeesh VM, Ashirwad V, Bhalachandra Pasupathy, Dr A Jayalakshmi, Dr Satyen Nabar, Jacob Brahmakulam, K Koteswara Rao, Kiran Cheruku, Kishore M Rao, Lakshmi Vaidyanathan, Mohanraj Thiyagarajan, Nagaraja Rao Pilla, Nick Loader, Padmanabhan PB, Raghavan SV, Rama Sridharan, Ramachandran, Ramesh Babu, Ramesh Kosaraju, Ramki Krishnan, Ravi Ramanan, Sabareesh Iyer, Samit Kallianpur, Sarvesh CK, Shrikanth T, Sreenivasan S, Sreeram K(Sree Sree), Suresh MS, Vasant Sreenivasan, Vinit W, Viresh Ratnakar.
Since this is a prize Crossword, comments for this crossword are closed. Winner will be randomly picked from amongst the all correct entries.
Solutions can be submitted using the 'Submit button' incorporated at the bottom of the grid after entering your name, email, your pick of the top three clues and comments/feedback if any in the space provided.
Those who have set the clues can also participate.
As I am trying this feature for the first time, thanks to Viresh Ratnakar, please also send an email (as a backup) with a screenshot of your solution grid with your postal address and a soft copy of your photograph.
Your submissions should reach me by 12 Noon on Friday 09 Feb 24.
I will put up the CW again for solving as a special at 10:30 AM on 11 Feb, 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.
ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
By THCC COMMUNITY
Across
| 1 | Like this ball-player, by arrangement? (8) |
| 6 | Dilapidated cabin in a strange realm (10) |
| 13 | Basically spend life everyday enjoying peacefully in retirement (5) |
| 14 | This blog/like a bible, very much essentially made me sorted out (4,5) |
| 15 | Economical, in retrospect, to buy neutral present (5) |
| 16 | Perhaps alcohol turned her tense and annoyed (3,5,3,6) |
| 18 | Uneven road regularly taken at daybreak (3) |
| 19 | Cassettes hiding valuable belongings (5) |
| 21 | Urine fills banks of turgid river (5) |
| 23 | Orbiting round ball basically (3) |
| 25 | A fallen angel is dwelling inside monster (5) |
| 27 | Assuming command in India, supremo struggled to control onset of insurgency (9) |
| 29 | Arrived without energy by the river (3) |
| 30 | Stonework has girl holding boy (7) |
| 31 | Pick up first small oar (5) |
| 32 | Lady rejected a match perhaps at recreational area (4) |
| 33 | Woven leis in Micronesia (4) |
| 35 | One with partners and others without criminal image (5) |
| 38 | Master is clear the mischievous student has to leave (7) |
| 39 | Sincerely regret holding back the urge! (3) |
| 40 | Face of cartoon fish picture in plastic wrap (9) |
| 42 | Beginning of summer! Spring was marvelous (5) |
| 43 | Remove king from pier to see the healer (3) |
| 44 | Stole, possibly pinching last of precious capital (5) |
| 46 | Error often at the end of a book's foreword (5) |
| 47 | Eat up a small tree (3) |
| 49 | Card game or rugby game being what winds up such rips (6-2-9) |
| 54 | Plant is mostly short, with rose at the tip (5) |
| 55 | Thing about kid eating large bar (9) |
| 56 | Small part of fish found behind latter half of keel (5) |
| 57 | Sprite for the head of a religious group (4,6) |
| 58 | With passion partners go out to kiss intimately (8) |
Down
| 2 | Concerning headless chap, half dement (5) |
| 3 | Reptile found in ship sailing from south (3) |
| 4 | Mainly focus on European embankment (5) |
| 5 | Perhaps I briefly hug a date - a tomboy (7) |
| 6 | Arm-twisted international entrepreneur at first to produce fibre (5) |
| 7 | Unknown fellow in US runs most of Moscow's liberal space (9) |
| 8 | Primarily hefty and muscular Asian luggage-carrier (5) |
| 9 | This, introducing case in antithesis, to show a marked difference? (17) |
| 10 | Characters in puzzling Odisha dialect (5) |
| 11 | Chat as mist chokes those at risk of suffocation (10) |
| 12 | Clear somersault challenge after comprehending about gravitation (8) |
| 17 | Type of delivery in truth had brilliance, leaving England's captain flummoxed (7,10) |
| 20 | Gather drink and jabber about term in Urdu (9) |
| 21 | Even king can be destroyed in a comic strip (3) |
| 22 | Counted with out one messy pipe carrying liquid or air (4) |
| 24 | Played Bob Marley's first single finally? That's sweet! (5) |
| 26 | Heads of management instructing new interns "Avoid short dress" (9) |
| 28 | Deplorable son ousts father's first daughter (3) |
| 32 | Fluorides are not safe & oilproof? Extremely shocking! (5) |
| 34 | Almost give a pink slip in a bag (3) |
| 36 | Its a percussion beat our admin produced ad free (10) |
| 37 | Squeeze a lemon and get vitamin out of dairy product (4) |
| 38 | Modified Burettes with leading tap right away used as container for chemical experiments (4,4) |
| 39 | Figure viewed from any corner is all right (9) |
| 41 | Kith's companion cycled to sign (3) |
| 45 | Missing Gridman's original long-spun cryptic puzzle (7) |
| 48 | One endless myth, say farewell story (5) |
| 50 | Working in Germany will never work (5) |
| 51 | Choral song list for accommodation of travellers?! (5) |
| 52 | Letters found here in boxing ring may contain spam (5) |
| 53 | Scoff alone gobbling something worthless (5) |
| 56 | Age concealed by cameras (3) |
Enjoy.
Those who have set the clues can also participate for the Prize.
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