Special, Friday 16 Jan 2026, IXL 2025 Onstage Final 2, Dr Satyen Nabar

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Special, Sunday 03 Aug 2025, WCCC-2025 Online Round 1, Dr Satyen Nabar

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Special, Sunday 20 Jul 2025, WCCC-2025 On Stage Final 1, Dr Satyen Nabar

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Special, 26 Aug 2018, Dr Satyen Nabar

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ACROSS
1   Corrupt set free (6)
4   Charge tease in appalling case (7)
8   Foul content of carbuncle analysed (7)
9   Search for strange wise man (7)
11 Confounded by riotous bedlam having consumed liquor endlessly (10)
12 Yearn for marathon (4)
13 Was victorious and endlessly happy to get money (5)
14 Peacekeepers backing communist to secure support (8)
16 A bit of honest and ardent quality (8)
18 Sprawling fish around far side of quay (5)
20 Man's grabbing many skirts (4)
21 Curates provide shelter for tribe with a disease (10)
23 Strive to protect kid in quake (7)
24 See 13 Down
25 Determined guy intercepts astonishing data (7)
26 Mythological daughters of Atlas at the end of story enter the underworld (6)

DOWN
1   Animal home retains new associate (5)
2   Endless discussion with leader of Iran on restriction of fundamentalist movement (7)
3   Angry maharani to kill husband’s lover (9)
5   Secure channel (5)
6   One who wanders with Republican following Twitter (7)
7   Start to request a turn at batting (9)
10 Builders concealing many blunders (9)
13 & 24A Very immature result of taking a head bath? (3, 6, 3, 4)
15 Stupidly hits out, intercepted by an easy catch (9)
17 Don't play guitar? It's questionable remedy (7)
19 Detains rogue preferably (7)
21 Clothe oneself with deception (3-2)
22 Annoys partners hiding chest (5)

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Special, Sunday 20 May 2018, Dr Satyen Nabar

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ACROSS
6   Marvellous flatfish (5)
7   Begging Bill not to kill head of state (8)
10 Look above for advance warning (5, 2)
11 Doctor advanced slowly and cleared out bed (7)
12 Nerve of crook largely broken by spies (7)
13 Extremely content after excessive spirits (7)
14 Powerless to stifle press! It's invulnerable (11)
19 Embrace subject entering therapy (7)
21 Short journey into street where business is done? (7)
23 Minor strikes to gain a number of privileges (7)
25 Israel sadly arrests student in demonstrations (7)
26 Explore odds (8)
27 Some funny long yarn (5)

DOWN
1   It is rum sprinkled over a dessert (8)
2   Private caught embracing miss (6)
3   What one sees on large screen TV? Overall perspective (3, 7)
4   Keen prima donna making a comeback (4)
5   Seaming viciously! Bails ultimately knocked out by stumper (6)
6   Man breaking first commandment (6)
8   Monitor to collect ticket (4, 3)
9   Corrects unnatural diets (5)
13 Cheer up, relax! I hate breaking up (10)
15 Pupils who enjoy skipping? (7)
16 Acceptable to be unmarried (8)
17 Opportunity to win when pawn eliminates rook (5)
18 Sane or insane mind (6)
20 Explosive device pirate blew up leaving one dead (6)
22 Brilliance of wine enthralls gangster (6)
24 Get rid of hut (4)

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Special, Sunday 15 Apr 2018, Dr Satyen Nabar

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ACROSS
6   Wise man takes time to guide (5)
7   Up in the sky, dove flies around flightless bird (8)
10/11 Grime got married, has two kids? Situation is calm now (4, 3, 7)
12 Where grass is plentiful, avoid ecstasy! Be thrifty, girl (7)
13 Vagrant who can survive at sea? (7)
14/26 Not found at any place? It’s inconsequential (7, 4, 3, 5)
19 Angry tussle after husband pressurizes (7)
21 Swift to communicate (7)
23 Romeo in story died of hurt (7)
25 Burning a contemptible man seeking payment (7)
26 See 14
27 Release a kidnapped relative (5)

DOWN
1   Solve the second across clue? Sorts one out (4, 4)
2   Brat tottering without clothes (6)
3   Essential to nurse love pangs! Some men do have them? (10)
4   Where army officers eat stew (4)
5   Robust time entertaining maiden in a small settlement (6)
6   Greedy king returns to control society with brutality (6)
8   Digs at the bottom of box to strike a chord (3, 4)
9   Embellish part of homestead ornately (5)
13 Made out with escort inside? Incredible (10)
15 Unfortunately, one jerk turns criminal (7)
16 Precious canines? (8)
17 Wife bashes and thrashes (5)
18 Fly damaging testes (6)
20 Behave harshly and adulterate drugs (4, 2)
22 Bonus to increase! Become cheerful (4, 2)
24 Document positively not at home (4)

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Special, Sunday 28 Jan 2018, Dr Satyen Nabar

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ACROSS
6   Essentially depressed after run out (5)
7   Husband thrown out! Blab, did he? Unfortunately spoke without preparation (2-6)
10 One hot girl, wild and lively (2, 3, 2)
11 Task - Collect posh gold coin stack (7)
12 Largely express pleasure and gaze at horizon (7)
13 Perplexing to develop an ulcer (7)
14 New migrants primarily cast out, shattering American Dream of togetherness (11)
19 Narks find motive involved in kills (7)
21 Place where UFO landed and ascended? Not quite right (7)
23 Students without bad habits (7)
25 A long distance call? That’s something very different (1, 3, 3)
26 Attacks wild animals? Futile venture (3’1, 4)
27 Tough question for model (5)

DOWN
1   Hard to understand drunkard in largely creepy club (8)
2   Enemy tortured one countryman (6)
3   Source of trouble but might help a fisherman? (3, 2, 5)
4   Slight stammer (4)
5   Cut out milk? Lacks purity primarily (6)
6   Quick exercise - About to engage in sex (6)
8   One directed at the ribs, countered by hook? (7)
9/20 Butter up dish essentially lacking chilies in seasoning (5, 6)
13 One in charge of late arrivals? (10)
15 Perils of frightfully cold enemas (7)
16 Operation to remove around 2/5th of liver ultimately (8)
17 Time to indicate significance of goal (5)
18 Glimpse of polished film actor (6)
20 See 9
22 Sleeper without sleep gets irritable (6)
24 Affected by endless bad luck (4)

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Special, Sunday 14 Jan 2018, Dr Satyen Nabar

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ACROSS
1   Faint in the bathroom perhaps while partying at nightclubs (3, 2, 3, 5)
10 Girl about to tackle primarily unchaste husband and break up (5)
11 Dieter’s goal - Cut off junk, I hear (4, 5)
12 Swindler’s idea to protect corrupt party (3, 6)
13 Groove to frenetic techno? No energy (5)
14 Sprucing up restores dignity (7)
16 Fellows with smouldering remains of passion get married first (7)
18 Stop terror around globe (7)
20 Choirs performing at Mass get baptismal robe (7)
22 Give access to man entering underground passage (5)
24 Two creatures having trouble with attacker (9)
26 Traditional head of college meets idiot wearing lilac dress (9)
27 Fairy tale writer threatening to kidnap maiden (5)
28 What a father wears to an affiliation proceeding? (9, 4)

DOWN
2   Pathetic university prudes seized (7)
3   More rational in a different way (9)
4   All performers playing express disapproval about appeal (5)
5   Long story about astonishing items relating to knowledge (9)
6   I love pasty-faced resident of American state (5)
7   Letter with record of ghastly lies about model (7)
8   Scatter-brained about love, female admirer primarily conjures fantastic notion (6, 2, 5)
9   Still together (2, 3, 4, 4)
15 Bird of prey can fly; go all over the place catching rats primarily (9)
17 Unions force back leader of industry in fits of fury (9)
19 Dance with sailor knocking back alcoholic delicacy (3, 4)
21 Host forgot oddly whimsical language (7)
23 Bit of discrimination (5)
25 What lips may be at the end of fight? (5)

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Special, Sunday 17 Dec 2017, Dr Satyen Nabar

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ACROSS
1   Frostiness at Trump's inauguration in city of refinement (6)
4   In the middle of a dingy back road (6)
9   CBI rogue starts to make weapon of mass destruction (1,1,1,1)
10 Stupid people hosting social return with devices for practical joke (5, 5)
11 High-octane drama (3-3)
12 Argue vigorously to seize destructive rebel (8)
13 Leave to avoid paying for kebab over a roll (2, 1, 6)
15 Getting on with some scumbag editor (4)
16 Dash into sleazy bar (4)
17 Conspiring secretly? Ancient ruler shouts (2, 7)
21 Display husky meal (8)
22 Understanding some can be slow on it? (6)
24 Replace too complicated order of insects (10)
25 Drawback about nationalist rule (4)
26 Parties with nurses (6)
27 Restrained violent nut in high spirits (4-2)

DOWN
1   Lack of toilet! Manage? Impossible (2, 3, 2)
2   Mark of separation-- Man in stupor (5)
3   One who Chinese primarily cast out? It can’t be put another way (7)
5   Might border on chaos (6)
6   Bold action by revolutionary leftist party enthrals mob (7-2)
7   Sovereign leader of Pakistan escorted and overthrown (7)
8   Ironically put this to probe mouth ulcer (6-2-5)
14 What Don Juan has -- Nystagmus perhaps? (6, 3)
16 Missile away! Move quickly from hiding (4, 3)
18 Excessively praise, perhaps laud team endlessly (7)
19 Accepted scene with revolutionary wordplay (5, 2)
20 One that persistently clings to troublemaker breaking contract (6)
23 Namely, what to do with broken down vehicle (2, 3)

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Special, Saturday 30 Sep 2017, Dr Satyen Nabar

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ACROSS
1   Associate kissed without consent! Essentially molested (6)
5   No longer effective but cleaned the dishes? (6-2)
9   Shortly get divorced from a man wanting hot time with secret lover (8)
10 Student yearning to get one fruit (6)
11 Damn fraud beginning to ensnare princess (8, 2)
12 Shape of eggs laid initially (4)
13 Shy men! Lot perhaps wanting maiden under cover (2, 3, 3)
16 President is in charge of appeals (6)
17 Business has improved? Become more stable (4, 2)
19 What Saurav Ganguly could do perfectly to be on good terms (3, 2, 3)
21 Shoot husband in error (4)
22 Bouncer -- Peril to man batting (10)
25 Blue deer drinks water finally (6)
26 Get rid of betrothed perhaps to show opposition (8)
27 What's seen on a football field? Bad-tempered obstruction (8)
28 Become very angry about boring issue (3, 3)

DOWN
2   Hired assassin? Well done! (5)
3   Club for employees (5)
4   Parachutes starting to drop villains (7)
5   Sophisticated material (7)
6   Poor supplicant cannot divorce (5, 2)
7   Valuable discovery largely in use -- Mixer (9)
8   Found criminal arresting judge? That's unprecedented (7, 2)
14 One next door girl in hot robe for all to see! Fantastic (9)
15 Extremely large drone about to leave America (9)
18 Soft broth prepared having taste ultimately of culinary plant (7)
19 Duck caught by stronger magpie (7)
20 Prompts fights around post office (3-4)
23 Abandon holiday (5)
24 Fastidious about husband calling (5)

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Special, Sunday 20 Aug 2017, Dr Satyen Nabar

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ACROSS
6   Stand and obstruct (5)
7   Cancel decision to spend too much time on horseback (8)
10 Cheat, lie endlessly? Become scrupulous (7)
11 Versatile Creole, originally Greek artist (2, 5)
12 Complete mutation of lice with similarly placed gene variants (7)
13 Fickle drug courier conceals pill (7)
14 What my agent having power of attorney can do is remarkable (11) (Note: Clue edited here but not in Across Lite version)
19 Warning of danger, fled desperately wearing tattered cloth (3, 4)
21 Pus collection? To operate, pay me thousand extra at first (7)
23 Place offering best view to notice fleeing beauty (7)
25 Hot in Vegas? Usually it’s butter (2, 1, 4)
26 Abstain from food, become lean? Hectic life (4, 4)
27 Accessory of a Mafia member kidnaps daughter (3-2)

DOWN
1   Characters taking shower to get rid of bedbug at squalid places (8)
2   Bottle of astonishingly colourless liquid used as antifreeze (6)
3   Lively reprimand (10)
4   Bare in pond (4)
5   Boy raved about modifying word (6)
6   It goes up and down! Understand? Understood (6)
8   Breeze great at yacht races (7)
9/17 Many work too hard, get stroke (5, 5)
13 One can’t score with young lady above (6, 4)
15 Fearless monster disregarding bit of injury captures everybody (7)
16 They help climbers repair tool shed (8)
17 See 9
18 Killed for having lost honour (6)
20 Disturbed dealing endlessly with rejection (6)
22 Blueprint with detailed design of flat (6)
24 Supermodel angelically shows poise (4)

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Special, Sunday 23 Jul 2017, Dr Satyen Nabar

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ACROSS
8/19 Local girl's a hit? Not quite (4, 4)
9    Might congress get dynamic person (10)
10 Cool place with stiff entry policy? (6)
11 Study precisely to make further changes (8)
12 Stupidly, adamant guy ignored facts (4)
13 Dilapidated machines, securing approval, puff endlessly (5-5)
17 Leader changes sides to pick fight (4)
18 Positive state (5)
19 See 8
20 Aversion to Trump leading in shaky nuclear era (10)
22 Discard lozenge (4)
23 Dog holds down songstress (8)
27 Slight irritation until taste of success (6)
28 Prison story about many escaping in rebellion!  That's very delicious (10)
29 Group having noisy room at the top (4)

DOWN
1   Exam board failure can dishearten (10)
2   One showing off dress turns with grand finesse (8)
3   Loaf in top drawer (5, 5)
4   Pitcher threw erratically somewhat (4)
5   Swimmer with aortic disorder! It's reversible? No (4)
6   Record crowd leads to irresolvable situation (6)
7   This organisation terrorises Iceland twice (1, 1, 1, 1)
14 Protein substitute isn't good (5)
15 Conductor of van involved in damaging fine beer (5, 5)
16 Repeated blows that can save people? (4, 2, 4)
19 Largely covering sides of debate in a fair way (8)
21 Overturns major defeats (6)
24 Where kafir anxiously hides? (4)
25 Healthy to greet, I hear (4)
26 Way England’s leader lost -- Overwhelming defeat (4)

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Speciail, Sunday 30 Apr 2017, Dr Satyen Nabar

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ACROSS
8   Secret always concealed by everyone else (2, 2)
9   This may be handy while making out with amazing doll! Heaven (4, 6)
10 Extravagant publicity for game (6)
11 Managed to be next to rulers to get positions of seniority (8)
12 Lead scoundrels back (4)
13 Flat gut she developed having trained on her own (4-6)
17 Keep talking about musical instrument (4)
18 Run faster! Lose top sleuth following (5)
19 Hit rhythm (4)
20 Annoyed an important person for raise (7, 3)
22 Jot down message (4)
23 Dirtier food and alcohol, I hear (8)
27 Mark's playing well (6)
28 Completely single, involved in romps and casual affairs (10)
29 Judge without hesitation about to liberate (4)

DOWN
1   Laundry can’t help? Nobody will believe (2, 4, 4)
2   Cold drink with gin? What nonsense (8)
3   Scrubs well past closing time for a fresh start (5, 5)
4   Briefly turn away to affirm (4)
5   Avoid short bypass (4)
6   Unmoved by content that explains it unambiguously (2, 4)
7   Stop advertisement (4)
14 Extremely drunk, boy lost game of chance (5)
15 Hot argument one interrupts to analyse what’s most prudent (10)
16 Neck with an extremely attractive person (4, 6)
19 Concerned if an object returned is essentially authentic (4, 4)
21 Loosely mobile obstructions! (6)
24 Limitlessly dull breed (4)
25 Acquire invention? Cue to leave country (4)
26 Evidence of leader quitting contest (4)

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Special, Sunday 26 Mar 2017, Dr Satyen Nabar

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ACROSS
1   Charged about two dollars, it’s inferred (6)
4   Throwing pie? Silly, I hear but what a revelation (8)
9   Embarrassed about brief proposal leading to ridicule (6)
10 What’s found in wet areas perhaps! (8)
12 Look after fort (4)
13 Letter that’s flown from Agra-Rome with me (10)
15 Full stop at the end of a colon? (12)
18 Gate-crasher perhaps? (9, 3)
21 Amazing atrium with quaint interiors gets official approval (10)
22 Some yobs assaulting all around? Need police order in UK (4)
24 Plague record one medic assembled (8)
25 Academic in capital at African citadel (6)
26 Transfer fool in government (8)
27 Elite umpire keels over clutching bottom (6)

DOWN
1   Pass ball to the left or right of close companion (8)
2   Nurses go operate with them! (8)
3   Destroys objectives (4)
5   Rose up hassled receiving bill? It’s incredible (12)
6   Source of energy that a presenter would like (5, 5)
7   Ron quits running marathons due to this? (6)
8   Told tales but flashback spoils end (6)
11 Being responsible for each tantrum at class (12)
14 Cleverly teases son about commotion with firmness (10)
16 Trouble? Surrender weapon (8)
17 Put out about nothing? Be more calm (8)
19 I learn new type of equation (6)
20 Most favourable conditions to select one scholar (6)
23 Plunder ship (4)

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Special, Sunday 05 Feb 2017, Dr Satyen Nabar

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ACROSS
8 and 11A Palmist's instruction-- Reveal intentions (4, 4, 4)
9   Reserves to practise during intervals (10)
10 Throws out failures? Not right (6)
11 See 8
12 Opposed to a drink (4)
13 Employing disheartened amateur winsomely (10)
17 Briefly luxurious asset (4)
18 Leader ignored safe approach (5)
19 Discard the actors (4)
20 Instructs one to delete documents with changes (10)
22 Pretentious talk of market optimist (4)
23 Dressing laggards with best clothes (4, 4)
27 Working with urgency to make career (6)
28 Extremely unemotional in uniform? That's a doctor (10)
29 Long in the water with evasive people (4)

DOWN
1   See 14
2   Unsolicited opinion of very little value (3, 5)
3   Runs in to have sex? Dismisses curtly (7, 3)
4   Some aficionados lounging at city (4)
5   Time to regret being faithful (4)
6   Transfer is rejected with brief call (6)
7   Pugilist under pressure contributes to knock one senseless (4)
14 and 1D Attack fiercely and advance towards pitcher who’s breaking a rule cunningly (2, 3, 3, 7)
15 Lass searches for young women’s organisation (4, 6)
16 Lacking agenda, lackey content to leave unenthusiastically (10)
19 Obscurely perverse lacking soul perhaps, intimacy can be a net attraction (8)
21 Practice of abandoning habits? (6)
24 Spoils machine in retrospect (4)
25 Colleague lawfully removes member (4)
26 Speak roughly to break zest (4)

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Special, Sunday 11 Dec 2016, Dr Satyen Nabar

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ACROSS
1   Crush on Romeo in underwear (6)
4   Revolutionary tale about scholar of Hindu scriptures (6)
8   Celebrity beaming artificially (3-4)
9   Useless to capture evil rogue (7)
11 Rushed to arrest despicable guy rolling in money (4-6)
12 Right to leave bar counter with sounds of disapproval (4)
13 Stay for short time on this after 3 Down (5)
14 Curvy top showing part that’s extremely appealing in between! (8)
16 Lobby for stake over dock (8)
18 Girl lost? Manoeuvre with compass (5)
20 Lose head in stray fight (4)
21 First proper single for England in test (10)
23 Searches over a long time (7)
24 Heftier punishment for stepping over the line! (4, 3)
25 Bond shows brunette the revolver (6)
26 Perform duty in the morning at sanctum of temple (6)

DOWN
1   Rubbish food (5)
2   Annoyed? Get extremely relaxed inhaling a joint (7)
3   Result of doing business with subordinate (6, 3)
5   Crush slavery (5)
6   Soviet politician’s ruse almost traps obscure leader of group (7)
7   Very touching observation about family time (9)
10 Bond admits need for maiden to squeeze (9)
13 Australian native’s cry of surprise interrupts robber (9)
15 Soppy demeanour in love (9)
17 Exceptionally caught leading to draw (7)
19 Doctor’s advice--put cream around red rash (3, 4)
21 Called for silence at bar (5)
22 Type of discrimination is involved in company gathering (5)

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Special, Sunday 04 Sep 2016, Dr Satyen Nabar

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ACROSS
1   Rich guy to totally step over the line--what’s the consequence? (2,4)
4   Gentle person although timid at first, can criticize harshly (7)
8   Beetles causing marks around muscle (7)
9   Show amazing article (7)
11 Process of adopting different line to get jackpot (6,4)
12 Losing head, agree to marry (4)
13 Firm about riot aroused by local tax (6)
15 Shut up and bring drink (4,4)
17 Dazzling expression of intense scorn (4-4)
19 Born accepting wave of broad spiritual movement (3,3)
21 Don to accept damage (4)
22 Con man to produce ecstasy stack (10)
24 Substituted side over row (5,2)
25 Jump in to grab ogre’s part (7)
26 Swirls yttrium in jars (7)
27 Drink around morning time--a high ball (6)

DOWN
1   Never admit endless craving for food (5)
2   Townsman runs in to bother woman (7)
3   His forte-- captivating one to bed when husband’s out! (9)
5   Buried for near eternity on sharp mountain ridge (5)
6   Outlaw group captures doctor (7)
7   Rascal caught partner tucking into stolen goods (9)
10 Display a severe hairstyle (9)
14 Knock to access craft (9)
16 Spades run arrested by long suit (9)
18 Largely secret image (7)
20 Moth larva, one hooked by net perhaps (7)
22 One involved in puzzle? It’s rather corny (5)
23 Case of newsreader snorting meth to be more entertaining (5)

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Special, Sunday 14 Aug 2016, Dr Satyen Nabar

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ACROSS
1    Race to acquire husband who's decent (6)
4    Careless boy is agile (6)
8    Examined when conscious (7)
9    Fully understands to lower crime (5,2)
11 Limited amount of money but it could secure a trainer (10)
12 Produced food, I hear (4)
13 Torment England in defeat (5)
14 Spiteful women going around in the raw at floor shows (8)
16 Lap dance time with model on stage (8)
18 Girl gets drunk, takes top off for traveller (5)
20 Murders to compensate for elimination of alien (4)
21 Uncertain on flight (2,2,3,3)
23 Seedy Indian leader to largely specify what’s banned (7)
24 Herb’s worry at fancy pub? (7)
25 Kohli opening in times past got runs --- but not off this? (6)
26 Have confidence in poor young loner (4,2)

DOWN
1/3 Impossible situation to get both teams out (5,6-3)
2    What female viper might perhaps be called at lecture (7)
3    See 1
5    Concealing? Don’t be dishonest (5)
6    Setback for one with stake on exotic cocktail joint (4,3)
7    Wrong about depression at the end of May, so it seems (9)
10 Nightclub at first may well perturb (9)
13 Ominously package is crammed with money finally (9)
15 Delivery secures wicket at the end of game but it's of little importance (9)
17 One taken in by examiner becomes more quarrelsome (7)
19 It’s moralistic to snoop around every individual (7)
21 Couple to marry (5)
22 Outlines biography of revolutionary Norwegian playwright (5)

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Special, Sunday 24 Jul 2016, Dr Satyen Nabar

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ACROSS
1   Dad’s predicament at high class type of party (6)
4   Married creep seeks lover (7)
8   What most women desire -- ability to acquire Rolls Royce (2, 5)
9   Rebel side about to plunder and strip (7)
11 Sponsor receiving zero income approximately (4, 2, 4)
12 Dupe woman aboard vessel (4)
13 Jumps around England? They might be high (5)
14 Discuss work with gossips at party (4, 4)
16 Cheerful Joker, a genius traps Batman finally (8)
18 Give top dollar; take first puff, dislike drug (5)
20 Too content to reveal solution (4)
21/21D Cohib? (5, 3, 2, 5)
23 Experience lower energy (7)
24 Nauseous initially after eating terribly harmful substance (7)
25 Loan-sharks are more reliable in America (7)
26 Vatican endorses gestures of peace (1-5)

DOWN
1   Mean to endlessly offend community (5)
2   High on liquor to make it more interesting (5, 2)
3   Bad actor gets rejected, airs his endless woes, becomes spiritual leader (9)
5   Strike force will manage campaign (5)
6   Bursts in suddenly and flares up, I hear (7)
7   Freedom to move barge back to dock (5, 4)
10 Chattered away to unnerve professor (7, 2)
13 Captions leading to furrows on brow (9)
15 Immoral objects-- they need to be tied up (5, 4)
17 Excessive sentimentality for beloved leads to musical aptitude (4, 3)
19 Getting accustomed to trendy university gang (7)
21 See 21 Across
22 Wants massages, I hear (5)

Across Lite Version can be accessed at Dr SN 7

Enjoy.

Special, Sunday 29 May 2016, Dr Satyen Nabar

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ACROSS
1   Grovels with fear (6)
4   One on Scotch, all shaken up lacking silly alcohol permit (7)
8   Sounds of distress (7)
9   Society has solutions for drug addicts (7)
11 Slightly dirty student leader dances drunk (4-6)
12 Endlessly boring in retrospect to express dismay (2-2)
13 Dim boy with mad king (5)
14 What an orthopaedic doctor might perhaps be called to break (8)
16 Master back in super form with knock for six (8)
18 Bathroom without Jacuzzi finally available for rent (2, 3)
20 Ladies ignore first warning (4)
21 Reciting fluently while staggering away (7, 3)
23 Avoid lad at bedtime (7)
24 Nothing helping lecture (7)
25 Like intrinsically to defame (7)
26 One with a website? (6)

DOWN
1   Understand drawback to secure contract (5)
2   Model is old enough (7)
3   Fund flow to largely clear jumble (9)
5   Not right to be licked, it's revealed (5)
6   Blistering dance festival (7)
7   Most close fight in a stern conflict (9)
10 Treated a fracture when very drunk (9)
13 These are very rare unhappy daydreams (4, 5)
15 Goes ahead at full speed to give the nod to one involved in plunder (4, 2, 3)
17 Slam champion bags tough Final in style (7)
19 Tied up opening in cover (7)
21 Duties for judges (5)
22 Level of puzzle (5)

Across Lite version can be accessed at Dr SN 6

Enjoy.