Special, Sunday 11 Feb 2024, 15th Anniversary Crossword Results and more

Thanks for the response to the 15th Anniversary Crossword Community Special Jumbo.

In all I received 40 solutions of which there were 19 all correct entries. Thanks once again to Viresh Ratnakar for helping me to set up the post to receive and check submissions directly which saved me a lot of effort in checking each entry individually for errors. 

ALL CORRECT 

Sree Sree Jacob Brahmakulam Ravi Ramanan R Nagendra Prasad D Narayanaswamy K Koteswar Rao Bhalachandra Pasupathy Ramki Krishnan Gowri H Rohit Agarwal M  Balasubramaniyam Mohan Thiyagarajan Lakshmi Prakash Sabareesh Iyer Vinayak Rao Ekbote Viresh Ratnakar Venkatesan P Kiran Cheruku Abhishek Sridhar

WITH ERRORS

Ranjani Srikanth, Ramesh Babu, Harish Kamath, Rengaswamy, Ratna Rao, Lakshmi Vaidyanathan, Vasant Sreenivasan, Dr A Jayalakshmi, Mona Sogal, Suresh MS, H Ramachandran, Dr Mukund Jaganathan, Dr Ashit Hegde, Dr Satyen Nabar, Michael Harms, Jacob Jayakar, Raju, PB Padmanabhan, Ramesh Kosaraju, Aashirwad Viswanath, Shruthi and Easwar Kumar

CLUES

40 clues attracted votes towards the top three clues. Dr Satyen Nabar's clues (16A & 17D) got 17 votes followed by K Koteswar Rao's clues (1A & 45D) with 13 votes and Lakshmi Vaidyanathan's clues (40A & 26D) with 11 votes. 

The other setters whose clues got mentioned were Bhalachandra Pasupathy and Abhishek Sridhar (7 votes), Vinit W (6 votes), Ramachandran, Sreenivasan and Sree Sree (5 votes), Samit Kallianpur, Rao Pilla, Sabareesh Iyer, Mohanraj Thiyagarajan and Ajeesh (4 votes), Ramesh Kosaraju, Veeraraghavan, Viresh Ratnakar and Ramki Krishnan (3 votes), Ravi Ramanan, Aashirwad Viswanath, Shrikanth T and Sarvesh CK (2 votes). Clues by Nick Loader, Vasant Sreenivasan, PB Padmanabhan and Kishore M Rao  got one vote each.

WINNERS

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

The winner for the top clue is Dr Satyen Nabar for his clue NATURAL CHILDBIRTH "Type of delivery in truth had brilliance, leaving England's captain flummoxed (7,10)" which garnered 11 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 4 PM (Annotations compulsory) After 4 PM anyone can answer the remaining if any.

Please provide all your answers in one comment.

Please also highlight errors if any in the cluing as many novices had set clues and they can learn from their mistakes if pointed out.

Enjoy.

Special, Sunday 04 Feb 2024, 15th Anniversary Community Crossword Jumbo

15th Anniversary Community Crossword Prize Jumbo

At the outset I would like to thank all the followers of the blog. The blog would not have lasted so long without your support. Special thanks to so many of you who have been staunch followers since the day I began this blog, fifteen years ago, on 04 Feb 2009. 

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.

Enjoy.

Fifteenth Anniversary of the Blog on Sunday 04 Feb 2024

I plan to post a 21 x 21 Community crossword for the 15th Anniversary of my blog which falls on Sunday 04 Feb 2024. 

The Grid has 64 clues and is not a themed one. All those who are interested please send me an email at deepakgita@gmail.com and I will send you two words/phrases each. Please set a clue and send it back to me latest by 31 Jan 24 ALONGWITH YOUR INTENDED ANNOTATION. 

The grid will be run as a competition grid and solutions (in the form of a filled grid) to be submitted to me by email, by 12 Noon on 09 Feb 24. A lucky draw will be taken from the all correct entries and the winner will get a prize. Name of the winner will be published on 11 Feb 24 and the grid will then be published as a special on Sunday 11 Feb 24. All those who have set clues can also participate in the competition.

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.

Special, Sunday 03 Feb 2019, 10th Anniversary Community Crossword Jumbo

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)

Across Lite version can be accessed at 10th ANNI CW

Enjoy.

Special, Sunday 04 Feb 2017, 9th Anniversary Special Community Jumbo

On the 9th Anniversary of the blog I would like to thank one and all who visit this blog this also includes all those who are silent followers and have never commented here. It is your continued support which gives me the inspiration to continue.

Thanks to Koteswar Rao, Lakshmi Vaidyanathan, Dr Satyen Nabar, Vasant Sreenivasan, Srinidhi Sreenivasan, Ramki Krishnan, Mona Sogal, Padmanabhan, Bhavan, Ajeesh, Dr Jyotsna Deo, Ashit Hegde, Dr Mukund Jagannathan, Bhargav, Dr Ashwini Nabar, Raju Umamaheswar, Faten Ismail, Kishore, and Rishikesh for contributing clues for this crossword.

FOUR ANSWERS per commenter with annotations till 8:30 AM on 05 Feb. Setters can also enter their answers for clues other than the clues they have set themselves.

At the end of this Crossword I have provided a survey form where I would like all of you to vote for the top three clues as per your choice. Clue voted the best will earn a prize for the setter. Results for this will be announced at 8 AM on 11 Feb 18. Just in case the Survey Form doesn't work, please also send me an email with your selection of top three clues.

ACROSS
12 Runaway bride, nearly took-off, we hear.. Must be an ailment (4,3)
13 New help is mad - crackers! (9)
14 Routine problem before birth (2,5)
16 Something to eat? Nothing, let's meet in a mess (9)
17 "Freeze!" police operation removing naked boy student going around University (3,2)
18 Musical fellow recalled stirring feelings (9)
19 Listener is with Lok Sabha peers (5)
20 Lacking origin, said/expressed greeting mostly relevant to ancient language (3,4,6)
21 Essential Renin broken down (5)
22 Helps adult son and female relatives without hesitation (7)
24 Crowned Head Constable resolved the lead arresting the Prince (9)
26 Drunk? Real drunk, to be precise (7)
28 Opponent wasted years going after profit (9)
31 Even duets carry a gift (5)
32 Girl's disappearance with essentially slimy model turning into an inflammatory issue (9)
34 Shapely , elegant relative is about to have sex (5-6)
37 They allow on craft providing food and lodging before game (8,5)
41 High class is in force to join a game (7,6)
42 Stop in Kashmir or Gaza Strip? (7,4)
43 Cover in the gap confused an aircraft approach (5,4)
45 Lead junction hold up leads to river end (5)
47 Stern foes changed with 'please' and the like (9)
50 Not on the job, wretched man, had some enchiladas, was almost ill (7)
52 Spawnings give the measures of  an aircraft athwart! (9)
54 Collector fires Sam and returns boxes (7)
56 Wine mama consumed surreptitiously (5)
58 Making out with former partner, zingier or it fizzles? (13)
60 Love a model? I ignored his words (5)
62 Novel boy resolves steamy row (3,6)
63 One in the lab making noise (5)
64 Female lap dancing for Canadian icon (5-4)
65 Grotesque incongruous creature is a wild and distant dream (7)
66 Tea with lemon juice-add a bit of echinacea- it changes colour (9)
67 Intricate ballet after noon that will feature 14 women playing (3,4)

DOWN
1   Initially annual report to bring up overdue payment (6)
2   Scram! Get away from those barriers! soundly causing indignities (8)
3   Brilliantly showing  strong libido from Uruguay with stealth (10)
4   I so desired initially to appear in blockbuster like “game of thrones “ for e.g (8)
5   Count upon one after a trick tape manoeuvre (10)
6   Beat the first two - the rest should surrender (6)
7   Plant the man, Harry to get representative (4,6)
8   Respected first name in perfumes I discovered finally (8)
9   Refrain from riot trouble and enroll hurriedly (10)
10 Fellow is in small accommodation but he's a person for you, me and others (8)
11 Average fellow hugs English princess (6)
12 Lift embargo on backlash (9)
15 Reverses deliveries, lures out! (9)
23 First look inside manoeuvre for a rifle mechanism (5,6)
25 Bugs irritated Ted's eyeball (11)
27 Club, perhaps, gets iron printing machine of some sort (6,5)
29 Ninus, for a change essentially protects member of a sect (7)
30 Essentially wants research covering ethnic group's revolutionary revival (7)
32 Ruffians kidnapping daugher and son - children under one's care (7)
33 Hide in South East island (7)
34 No second coffee/tea (3)
35 In no situation one can stay there (3)
36 Regular divide for a data repository (3)
38 Bartender has expertise (3)
39 Lock up, restrain a burglar? (3)
40 Appeared for college admission exam (3)
43 Good stuff to master, a habitual response being syntactically correct (9)
44 Yes, father intrudes into latcher rambling on and on. That's Ideal! (10)
45 Not smart! Robbed a chicken, baked a Turkish Delight (5,5)
46 A Pole taken back by Scot to look so it's said at waterbody (7,3)
48 Female campaigned for grand piani carved on tree (10)
49 Demanding girlfriend and nearly unavailable. I’m backing out (9)
51 Doctor agrees to have an alcoholic drink (8)
52 Sorbet in liquid and solid form ? (5,3)
53 Hemp tins arranged for transportation (8)
55 Seen frequently in palm-court estate of a lover (8)
57  Brief discomfort restraining my wildcat (6)
59 Strange story about Exa (A very uncommunicative person) (6)
61 Ancient Greek's article on prohibition (6)

Across Lite version can be accessed at 9th ANNI CW

All the best.

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Special, 04 Feb 2017, 8th Anniversary Special, Springer

Three answers per commenter as usual till 1 PM (Annotations compulsory) 
Please provide all your answers in one comment.

THCC Anniversary Special

Happy Birthday THCC. This is my humble tribute to the site and all the bloggers -Springer

ACROSS
1   Visits healer's works before close (5,2)
5   Well-built officer in the street of Kentucky (6)
11 Picture fashionable group (5)
12 Menacing threat of eastern vanguard (2,3,4)
13 Top cover his car pal loosened (4,5)
14 Problem child (5)
15 Bank's additional clause not right (4)
17 Not inside party gate; in open air (7)
21 Long reach of monkey (4,3)
22 Modify irregular diet (4)
26 Cord error in command (5)
27 Almost concerned with choice of a fight (2,2,5)
29 What you might say of the others when the last clue is remaining to be solved? (4,3,2)
30 Delete Times puzzle last (5)
31 Shy one mixes sweets (6)
32 Learned Indian's intellect charms His Majesty (7)

DOWN
2   Indian sage’s curriculum-vitae? (5)
3   Fertiliser prepared at shop (6)
4   Superb Havana smoked in Indian villa (6)
6   The endless paper (3,5)
7   Cuss and other four letter ones may be found here? (9)
8   Instrument surveys variable/even areas (1-5)
9   Half peck at the beach given by the Indian youth (7)
10 Pets walk briskly? (4,3)
16 Codes Enid cracks; selects after deliberation (7,2)
18 The month contributing to jumping about sometime? (8)
19 Pass extended for the army officer (7)
20 Busts the position of concealed English(7)
23 Quarter to come out reportedly (6)
24 Heartless investigator in a tight spot (6)
25 Krishnan Jr.: artist at the net (6)
28 Fine a private investigator having animal (5)

Across Lite version can be accessed at SPRINGER 3

Enjoy.

SOLUTION

Special, Wednesday 04 Feb 2015, 6th Anniversary Prize Special Results,

Thanks to all those who comment/visit this blog and who have helped the blog to flourish. 

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

Special thanks to Abhay for providing this Jumbo special. The solution grid and the annotations as intended by Abhay are appended at the end of this post.

A chronological list of entries received are shown in the two tables below, one for the solutions and the other for the annotations.

The regular blog will appear at 9 AM.

SOLUTIONS

Name	Received on	Errors	Remarks
Mohsin Ahmed	01 Feb @ 7:41 PM	All correct
Bhalchandra Pasupathy	02 Feb @ 1:58 AM	1 Error
Vinayak Ekbote	02 Feb @ 6:20 PM	2 errors
Kishore M Rao	03 Feb @ 9:57 AM	All correct
Sandhya Jagdish	03 Feb @ 3:31 PM	1 Error
Shrikanth T	03 Feb @ 5:28 PM	4 Errors
Raghunath	03 Feb @ 7:30 PM	4 Errors
Rangarajan Ramanujam	03 Feb @ 7:45 PM	1 Error	First entry with two errors was received on 02 Feb at 3:06 PM

ANNOTATIONS

Name	Received on	Errors	Remarks
Mohsin Ahmed	01 Feb @ 7:41 PM	1
Bhalachandra Pasupathy	02 Feb @ 5:19 PM	2
Vinayak Ekbote	02 Feb @ 6:20 PM	8
Kishore M Rao	03 Feb @ 9:57 AM	5
Raghunath	03 Feb @ 7:30 PM	12

PRIZE FOR ALL CORRECT SOLUTION

KISHORE M RAO

Only Mohsin and Kishore had all correct solutions and as Mohsin has the best list of annotations as well, the prize for the all correct solution is being awarded to Kishore

PRIZE FOR FIRST ALL CORRECT ANNOTATED SOLUTION

MOHSIN AHMED

Though I have shown 1 error in annotation against his name it is actually not a major error.

Congrats to both the winners. The prize will be handed over to them at the S&B meet at Chennai on 8th Feb as both are attending.

SOLUTIONS AND ANNOTATIONS AS INTENDED BY ABHAY

ACROSS

10	Moulds the mind within sea animals (11)	HAMMERHEADS = "sea animals"	{HAMMER{HEAD}S} (Moulds = HAMMERS) with (mind = HEAD) within
12	Uropod cut in half just in the insect's abdomen (7)	UROMERE [is] "in the insect's abdomen"	{UROpod}+{MERE}
13	Winged sandals cast at a liar (7)	TALARIA = "winged sandals"	(AT A LIAR)* Anind: cast
14	Less common to find odd ages regularly taking on the three Rs (5)	RARER = less common	{AgEs} "regularly taking on" {RRR}
15	Grow less intimate apart, or lightly sleep off? (5)	DRIFT = (with 'apart') grow less intimate, and (with 'off') lightly sleep	CD, DD
16	Found on side A, "Taken In" possibly makes Nell agog (4,3)	LONG LEG = "found on side" (treat onside as one word)	{A} "taken in" by LONG LEG produces the reverse anagram "Nell agog"
17	3/5 of 22 and 2/3 of 10 add up to a short story (5)	CONTE = short story	CON ("3/5" of 22 down EX-CON) and TE  ("2/3" of the word "ten")
18	Small rodent eats Indian cloth (5)	VOILE = cloth	{VO{I}LE}
19	Avid one excitedly referring to a mole (7)	NAEVOID = referring to a naevus (a mole)	(AVID ONE)* Anind: excitedly
21	Singer Bruce led Aqua's comeback, essentially (5)	ADELE = singer	{brucE LED Aqua's} ß Comeback suggests the reversal, essentially indicates that the central letters have to be picked
23	Parasite strain caught (5)	LEECH = parasite	Homophone of leach = "strain"
24	Capital city known for Rebus puzzles? (9)	EDINBURGH = capital city (of Scotland)	CD: Ian Rankin's series of detective mysteries ("puzzles") featuring DI John Rebus are set in Edinburgh
26	Follower perhaps reunited disbanded hitmen (9)	SUCCESSOR = "Follower, perhaps" in the sense of one who follows the predecessor	Hit=SUCCESS, men=OR "Reuniting disbanded hitmen" suggests "disbanding" (separating) the word and then "reuniting" the synonyms
29	Gnome, too, oddly followed Hollande's word (5)	MOTTO = gnome	{ToO} followed MOT (French for "word", hence "Hollande's word")
32	Order setter, perhaps, to undertake a journey in hiding (5)	DOGGO = in hiding	Order given to setter (DOG) to undertake a journey (GO)
34	Minute aquatic organisms seen in north-east Texas city after evaporation of under-hydrogenated water (7)	NEUSTON = minute aquatic organisms	{NE}{hoUSTON} Since water is H2O, under-hydrogenated water could well be HO!
35	Publish a central depiction of an old Germanic letter (5)	RUNIC = of an old Germanic letter (rune)	{RUN}(I}{depiCtion}
36	Infatuation a high-ranking officer had for a butterfly (5)	PASHA = both high-ranking officer and a butterfly	{PASH}{A} Charade + DD
37	One is against a person deseeding cotton (7)	AGINNER = one [who is] against [something]	{A}{GINNER}
38	Post office suppresses steamy picture (5)	PHOTO = picture	{P{HOT}O}
39	That's a good beginning, Bill! (5)	FLIER = both "bill" and "good beginning"	DD
40	In Switzerland, a long line wears an expression of disbelief at finding bread for the Sabbath (7)	CHALLAH = bread for the [Jewish] Sabbath	{C{H{A}{L}{L}A}H} CH = Switzerland, HA[!] = expression of disbelief, ALL from "a long line"
41	Surround swimmer when troubled at first (7)	ENWHEEL = surround	EEL with (WHEN)* "at first"
42	Locks set in motion by sensitive mechanism (4,7)	HAIR TRIGGER = sensitive mechanism	Locks = HAIR, set in motion = TRIGGER

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1	Novel describing able collector of incredible facts? Not really (3,8,2,6)	THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY = novel	CD: able = TALENTED, while the rest of the  clue refers to the Ripley of "Ripley's Believe It Or Not!"
2	Manage lien turning up lots of money in Africa (10)	EMALANGENI = money in Africa (Swaziland, to be precise). The "lots of" refers to the fact that this is the plural form of the monetary unit lilangeni	(MANAGE LIEN)*
3	Special bread dessert picked up for explosive variant of Russian mixed drink? (6,4)	PETROL BOMB = Molotov cocktail ("Russian mixed drink")	CD with wordplay: PET=special, (ROL BOMB) comes from the homophone ("picked up") for roll (bread) and dessert (bombe)
4	Half of them called for a Mass in 24 (6)	THRANG = Scots word for mass/mob/throng	{THem}{RANG}
5, 25	Tipsy metal worker preceded by almost aristocratic writer (8,9)	PATRICIA HIGHSMITH = writer	{HIGH}{SMITH} preceded by {PATRICIAn}
6	A stance taken when parrying detailed query about untenanted redevelopment of the lot (6)	QUARTE = a stance taken when parrying (in fencing)	({QUERy}{AbouT})* Anind: redevelopment of the lot
7	Wander around military college with principal leading way to African building (8)	RONDAVEL = [South]African building	{RO{NDA}VE}{Leading}
8	Drain out dense, fixed concrete (8)	DEFINITE = concrete	{DensE}(FINITE}
9	"Quarter it", two women echo, finding direction before being stuck in the middle (7,4,3,5)	NEITHER HERE NOR THERE = stuck in the middle	{NE}{IT}{HER} {HER}{E} {NOR TH}{ERE}
11,33	Odder representation of Sinatra on film and book (9,2,1,5)	STRANGERS ON A TRAIN = film and book	STRANGER + (SINATRA ON)*
20	Put up with malfunctioning cloak for Robert Englund initially (5)	DURED = put up with	{DU{Robert Englund}D} DUD = malfunctioning "cloak for" Robert Englund "initially"
22	Last flaw in erstwhile unwilling guest (2-3)	EX-CON = "erstwhile unwilling guest"	CD + wordplay, EX=last, CON=flaw
25	(see 5 down)
27	Circa 50 CE, Il Duce exiled criminal cell where all were involved, it is found, in cases of rape (6,4)	ERUCIC ACID = "it is found in cases of rape"	CD + wordplay: (Circa + L + CE + Il Duce)*
28	That devilish study, for example, contains bronze orb and trunk (10)	SATANOLOGY = that devilish study	{SA{TAN}{O}{LOG}Y}
30	Reflection of standard chronograph display comprising, say, three digits? (3,2,3)	TEN TO TWO	CD based on how the standard way watches  are displayed would look in a mirror image; homophone of "ten, two, two"
31	When done with a quick but thorough look… (4-4)	ONCE-OVER = quick but thorough look	ONCE=when + OVER=done
33	(see 11 down)
36	…find folios in a heap of rubbish (6)	PIFFLE = rubbish	{PI{FF}LE}
37	Writer, given names, censored and edited so automatically! (6)	ALCOTT = writer	(SO AUTOMATICALLY)* gives Louisa May Alcott,  from  which  the  "given names"   (Louisa May) are "censored"

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