CRYPTIC CROSSWORD OPEN, IIT Madras, 02 Apr 2016

All the best to all participants.

The Word Games Club of IIT Madras is organising its flagship event, The Cryptic Crossword Open, on 2nd Apr 2016.

The event is open to all in teams of two, just like last year, with prizes worth 20K up for grabs, along with special prizes for the best college and best school teams.

Registrations will be on-spot, but they have a Google form for RSVP so that they can have a rough estimate of the number of people turning up.

The Google form can be accessed at the following link REGISTRATION FORM

Contact Shashwat Sinai Salgaocar for further details if any.

Special, Sunday 03 May 2015, Final Chennai Crossie Open 2015 by WGC IIT(M)

As this is a 13x13 only TWO answers per commenter (Annotations compulsory) till 6PM.
Please enter all your answers in a single comment.

Nirmal L, Akshay Krishna, Narasimhan B & Sashank K of IIT(M) were the setters for the Chennai Crossie Open
Thanks to Nirmal of IIT(M) for sharing this with us.

ACROSS
7   Doctors for disturbed, loveless astrophysicist (13)
8   Marriage of Spanish opera lead and American labourer (8)
9   Leaders of Pakistan lord over troubled land (4)
10 Black OR white kind of logic? (7)
12 Fool I would start to ignore over time (5)
14 Drain parasite of the ear (5)
16 Burn up setter in box (7)
19 Burma, Siam part of this? (4)
20 Claim of strength proves ineffective (8)
22 Reenacting sin reveals refusal to change one's attitude (13)

DOWN
1   Most of 19's just like this (2,2)
2   Tutor institute (6)
3   Woman sends son back in slumber parties (7)
4   Misappropriated tippet (5)
5   Relaxed princess in retrospect, is lucid (6)
6   Fresh tacos not on the house (2,2,4)
11 Outspoken, fat worker is respectful (8)
13 Explicit illustration (7)
15 One fleeing burning Karachi to spiritual centre (6)
17 "Whisper", many say (6)
18 Soft Scot dipping in river (5)
21 Sweet relative, not sweetheart (4)

Acrosslite version can be accessed at FINAL CCO 2015

Enjoy.

Special, Sunday 19 Apr 2015, Prelim Chennai Crossie Open 2015 by WGC IIT(M)

Thanks to Nirmal of IIT(M) for sharing this with us.
FOUR answers per commenter (Annotations compulsory) till 6PM.
Please enter all your answers in a single comment.

ACROSS
11 "Our country has no currency." : Queen's backer (8)
12 Facility used anytime (7)
13 Story from evocative picture (4)
14 Outside in the middle of the month (4)
15 48 crippled and headless (5)
16 Take another look at afflicted cronies, often dreary (10)
17 Tissue for Poles in labour (6)
18 Not half of the school of masochists become revolutionaries (7)
20 The British in Tokyo imbibe Japanese religion (6)
21 Small heart of 4 (4)
22 Mail in favour of order (4,3)
23 Workmen whom queens follow precisely (8)
24 Anna Hazare and Irom Sharmila, for instance, want attackers (6-8)
26 Glimpses of friends' tweets (5)
29 A party about love (5)
31 Slipping downward closer to unprecedented destruction (6,5,3)
34 Ringing sound she and I made in pleasure crafts (8)
36 Some pumpkins, mangoes for relative (7)
38 Slant constant in three directions (4)
39 Say sign again (6)
40 Betrayal of corrupt senator (7)
41 Auditor to gain nothing in shanty town (6)
42 Got leather altered entirely (10)
44 Respond to emission of charged particle from chemical process (5)
45 Unlocked, king fled westward (4)
46 Eyesore, we hear, is a sore in the eye (4)
47 Goodness, it is said, of a lady is non-existent (7)
48 Selected sailor to come by journalsit (8)

DOWN
1   Illegal humanoid dens go scot-free (12)
2   Ownership of subsidy returned at parliament meeting (10)
3   Doctor disables the well-set (11)
4   Say, seven church officials met Narendra Modi and Stephen Harper (5,9)
5   Draws and averts (5,3)
6   Carry animal (4)
7   Troupe's almost around us (6)
8   School for fitness? (9)
9   Rising fire in practical can be checked (10)
10 Overseer negotiated with creditor (8)
19 Felt excited about king (7)
23 Theatre, music and dance in clothes men leave behind (10,4)
25 City embraced by libero or keeper (7)
27 147 break in snooker, a nine-dart game and a bagel are flawless plays (7,5)
28 Earthlings left out of dusk-to-dawn parties (3-8)
30 Lengthy procedures on sole arm (10)
32 Wither, then nourish with sewage (10)
33 Absence due to illness on Cutter Avenue (4,5)
35 Trade in our institute? Yes! Perfection! (8)
37 Stripped of these slits, no respiration can start (8)
40 Casual wear for the golf course? (1-5)
43 Defeat right away (4)

Across Lite version can be accessed at PRELIM CCO 2015

Enjoy.

PS: For your info Mohsin and Ajeesh completed this in half the allotted time!

CHENNAI CROSSIE OPEN, IIT Madras, 18 Apr 2015

All the best to all participants. May the best person win.