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.

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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