Sunday, 10 May 2026

Special, Sunday 10 May 2026, K Koteswar Rao

3 answers per commenter annotations compulsory till 6 PM.
Please provide all your answers in one comment.

This Alphabetical Jigsaw puzzle contains 26 entries, each starting with a different letter of the alphabets. Clues are listed in alphabetical order by their answers. 

The clue numbers in the grid is only for reference and is in no way linked to the Alphabets. The answers need to be entered in the appropriate position.

Happy solving!

Screenshot or an image of the Completed grid can be mailed to Koteswar Rao at kkotirao@gmail.com

A Physicist’s major exposition stored in new laptop corrupted (8) 
B Buy and live with made-up story, extremely veritable (7)  
C Priest gave up harsh penance for unknown painter (7) 
D Refuse to get undressed, actress at heart leaves story ultimately (7) 
E Effluents from European states affecting humans essentially (10) 
F Firing bone produces a soluble blood plasma protein (10) 
G Maybe eating only vegetarian mainly? That's what I do in a foreign country! (2,6) 
H Mother wearing exotic Haiti cloaks (7) 
I He destroys portraits of revolutionary colonist with combat arms primarily (10) 
J Revolutionary junta accepts most of draft law, shouting in joy (8) 
K Family controls share with core group in a unit of explosive force (7) 
L Look into cut of meat (4) 
M Delinquent man takes drink with agent (10) 
N Contradict in many ways ignoring heads perhaps (6) 
O Primarily, ossicles take internal care of the ear (4) 
P Journey time spent by setter with love (7) 
Q Favour from queens enjoying sleight! (7) 
R Turn any diary and find the time of special need (5,3)  
S Spooner's standard place of duty in economic downturn (11) 
T Broken etui found around vessel’s structure (6) 
U Green and blue almost mixed in an unbelievable story (5,6) 
V Look in the middle of tic-tac-toe duel for speech sounds (6) 
W Headdresses of women undecorated when cycling (7) 
X Doctors look into this broken crossbeam? (1-3) 
Y Cowardly bombardment without velocity returned by West (6) 
Z Aztec mostly unraveled letter from Greece (4) 

Enjoy.

32 comments:


  1. M Delinquent man takes drink with agent (10)= MALEFACTOR= DELINQUENT
    M= Male
    Ale= Drink
    Factor= Agent

    My first

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  2. Primarily, ossicles take internal care of the ear (4)= OTIC( Acrostic)
    My second

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  3. Doctors look into this broken crossbeam? (1-3) .
    Answer: X- Ray
    X= cross
    Ray= Beam
    My third

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  4. I do not know how to fill the grid. That's why copying the clue and the annotated answer

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    1. You have to decide where it fits only then you will be able to fill the grid

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    2. The way I filled the grid with three answers. Is it that way the grid to be filled ?

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    3. Once you get a solution you will have to workout in which slot the solution will fit, based on the enumeration and crossing letters

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  5. L = cut of meat = loin ((lo)(in))
    Sathia

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  6. A- appleton
    E- (e(xplosion) n(ew) laptop) *
    O-otic (acrostic)

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    1. Please provide Annotation for A else I will have to delete the post

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  7. Replacement for I
    I- iconoclast (colonist (c) (a) *

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  8. 14 d E. emanations e (ma) nations -effluents.
    19 ac F fibrinogen.firing bone.
    9 dn U urban legend- green blue an *

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  9. R= time of special need = rainy day
    (Any diary)* turn angind
    Sathia

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  10. Z = letter from Greece = zeta
    Aztec mostly is Azte. Unravelling is anagind
    Sathia

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  11. F (bone firing)* = FIBRINOGEN
    Y = Volley-v(elocity)+w(est)* = YELLOW
    T = (Etui+SS)* = TISSUE

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  12. Replacement for F
    N = Nay +(ways -w)* = NAYSAY

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    1. Congrats Argo on being the first to submit all-correct grid!

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  13. Super exciting, challenging and entertaining grid ! Thanks a ton Koteswar Rao sir!

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  14. B- Believe
    Live- Be
    Made up story- Lie
    Extremely variable- VE
    Def. - Buy
    Extremely distracted by CSK playing in Cheoauk

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  15. A- Appleton- Physicist
    (n laptop e)*
    New- N, major exposition- E
    Corrupted - Anind

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  16. S = stagflation (economic downturn)
    flag station ~ stag flation

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    1. J = jubilant (shouting in joy)
      (junta)* accepts bil(-l)

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    2. V = vowels (speech sounds)
      middle of t(i)c t(a)c t(o)e d(ue)l = i,a,o,u,e = vowels

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  17. All-correct entries received so far:
    1.ARGO
    2. PRASAD,
    3. KIRAN

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  18. Mailed my solution just now KKR ji.

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    1. Many thanks Ramkiji. I am happy that you are the 4th solver of this grid.

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  19. Grid has since been updated. Solutions are now available in the Grid

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  20. Missed Q-quarter and C- Cezanne. Mailed it though

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    1. Just now saw your mail in Spam folder.
      Thanks for sending.

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    2. I was initially stumped by the need for a trial and error approach to the grid. After getting the first, the randomness decreased. This is my first attempt at this kind of puzzle. Thanks!

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