Special, Sunday 05 Dec 2021, Springer

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Special, Sunday 12 May 2019, Springer

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ACROSS
1   Where you woo and pray for justice? (5,2,6)
10 It might show who leads the RK Puram elections, New Delhi (5)
11 Nice black beast; but it's your pet peeve! (9)
12 Old farm machine-a fan (9)
13 Sailor's daughter tied to a knave (5)
14 Happier to have Greek character in line (7)
16 Last consumer painfully endures (3-4)
18 No one is better than him at the wedding (4,3)
20 Preserved fodder burning idle gas (7)
23 Papers about liberal kingdom (5)
25 Upside down double rays bend with voltage (4-5)
27 Complete very large replica for clinical insight of stomach (9)
28 Manage and in charge of old alphabets (5)
29 Goad Ray on to tell a fine story? (4,1,4,4)

DOWN
2   Single pace dance (3-4)
3   Bureaucracy of communist maps it out (3-6)
4   Late notice's right to circulate (5)
5   18 and 24 are the ones who miss turn at matches (9)
6   Yearned for supposed love missing (5)
7   Manila's wild creatures (7)
8   Saint's stretching on the road (6)
9   Shoot remote celestial body (6)
15 Composes lunar song and leaves (4,5)
17 Quickly salvage what's left inside (9)
18 Egg inside toppings of bun roll for fast food (6)
19 He may not sit down for making you laugh (5-2)
21 Grander design for writer and lawyer (7)
22 Line cut in cube cooler (3,3)
24 Society friend not free for builder (5)
26 Authority utters nothing (3-2)

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Special, Sunday 01 Jul 2018, Springer

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ACROSS
1   He is unreactive and found here (8,5)
10 Association for cricket match in Dharamsala? (3-2)
11 Fizz a drink with C8? (9)
12 Alerts mom about Eddy (9)
13 Greek character receives article with thanks (5)
14 Fact is hard to digest: a whiskered swimmer (7)
16 Believers are the first supplicants initially (7)
18 Lead to get fresh bargain? (3,4)
20 West Indian music about to play; dance then! (7)
23 Wizard's journal from America (5)
25 Speed with which you leave is Great goin', perhaps (5,4)
27 Come with a cry of delight (9)
28 Lookout for a pack member (5)
29 Expose fit of Delhi? (4,3,3,3)

DOWN
2   Lemon's odd parts heard to be present with Titanium's first in 1 (7)
3   Cold admission by someone docile? (9)
4   Furnishings to adorn without worry (5)
5   Mica torch sprayed using colour (9)
6   Follow expert having a change of heart (5)
7   They are in van (7)
8   A cat's in charge of small things (6)
9   Rocks, Iron and Aluminium? (6)
15 Hard to love and see diagram made by hand (9)
17 Expected back record is easy at first to defend and to be extolled (9)
18 Feeling more torpid? No, in short (6)
19 High flyer number 11 or 10 batting for a long time? (7)
21 Drama in away match (7)
22 Criminal code broken by Tom and Rea (6)
24 Wife's endless complaint (5)
26 Perfect croupier's description of his work (5)

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Special, Sunday 27 Aug 2017, Springer

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ACROSS
1   Gander hobbles around goose's empty cage (7)
5   Delhi uncle's doublet? (6)
11 Girls heard to have hang overs! (5)
12 Subject of French writer's study time (9)
13 Clean curb -unearth stone (9)
14 Animal enjoying popular flower (5)
15 Spot online agent (4)
17 Cry for  Zulu leader missing-dead (7)
21 Daily becoming more hygienic  (7)
22 Football club's progenitor (4)
26 Picture game I played  (5)
27 Phone talk that won't cost much (5-4)
29 Editor's in to purchase set of rules (9)
30 Wasim Akram perhaps loved exciting, fast, toe-crunching yorkers primarily (5)
31 Least error done in Sunday (6)
32 Bring in surreptitiously lame mules and horse pack (7)

DOWN
2   Fifty six deliveries to Anushka's Kohli, say (5)
3   Think with hesitation at the gallery (6)
4   Score corner by captain (6)
6   Second man's grasp (8)
7   Pearl coat made for Antony's love (9)
8   Golds brought in paper's writer (6)
9   Master having drink with singer (7)
10 Requests for a quite chime on Sunday (7)
16 Ask old pot to make pattern (5,4)
18 American uncle's oriental present; for me too! (4-4)
19  Green-eyed, fervid Jack replaces Zulu (7)
20 They yank with pronounced ease (7)
23 Bobby's dent? (6)
24 Shout son! Best is to follow (6)
25 Aged girl returns having served time-many times (3
28 Legalised capital punishment is horrible (5)

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Special, Sunday 21 May 2017, Springer

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ACROSS
1   The Wall run out by Gower, say (5)
4   Kiss and smell the hypocrite (9)
9   Own up by cheat for storing iron on ship (7)
10 Dirty punk met slyly (7)
11 Cherished object has glow right in (9)
12 Fires off fine line (5)
13 Struggle fixing rivets (6)
15 Benevolence, bequeathing late? (8)
18 Miss Rita blows nose first (8)
19 Perhaps artful but elusive one (6)
22 Lick again! the woman's back has appeal (5)
24 Bill, pause; make it likely (9)
26 Love to restrain view (7)
27 Pig's foot cooked for horse (7)
28 Noise vent out; the game is going to be played (5,2,2)
29 Hence agrees to take beans (5)

DOWN
1   Heck! One hundred thousand stashed in caves (7)
2   Seven U.S.A. flights discovered the evening star (5)
3   Drowning reprieved from far downstream (4,5)
4   Pretending to sit? (6)
5   Could rain, seethe and wash one away from pot boiler (8)
6   Twist villain under turbulent skies (5)
7   Mini germs swimming under water (9)
8   Important to plump for alternative fuel (7)
14 Managed church rent by stable boy, say (5,4)
16 Delicate returns of candy pellets (9)
17 Despatches include advice and wages (8)
18 Miser's puppet has got credit for bar (7)
20 Again wins back points all round (2-5)
21 Cheat's skill is a case (6)
23 Oliver's dance (5)
25 Loco TT located in Mumbai, say (5)

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Special, Sunday 12 Mar 2017, Springer

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ACROSS
1   Two vehicles carrying a trailer (7)
5   A follower of method goes to brink (6)
11 Care has to be taken to go topless in the zones (5)
12 Favourite lunacy moderates to peevishness (9)
13 Boy, say, wins trophy/flower (9)
14&28D Robber after the Hebrew & the Spanish for stealing gemstones (5,5)
15 Objects to terminations (4)
17 Not a good ruler of Iran? (7)
21 Mono satellite recently observed? (3,4)
22 Colour of lube oil (4)
26 Rate of spectacles?It is too much! (5)
27 Dhruva-celebrity from Punjab? (5,4)
29 One in the list of Edward partied noisily (9)
30 Pilot's help-book (5)
31 Hey! The insurer's in to recommend policy of homeodynamics (6)
32 Fiery UN out to make one again (7)

DOWN
2   A man's instrument (5)
3   Key news broadcast about the come back artist (6)
4   Face a group playing piano (6)
6   Recently became exclusively fair (4,4)
7   A doll went around asking, "Everyone goes through this,isnt it?" (4,2,3)
8   The emperors' trust worthies first change hands (6)
9   Good walker becomes better (7)
10 Close the hole for the moment (4-3)
16 Fancy miss, Miss Universe? (5,4)
18 Stressed, woeful time chap's having (8)
19 Perhaps none go in here (2,5)
20 The student acquired and became this (7)
23&24D By what means the artist Henry cross over the Hooghly? (6,6)
24 See 23D
25 Reportedly point the revolver at the warrior (6)
28 See 14 Across

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

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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)

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Special, Sunday 22 Jan 2017, Springer

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ACROSS
1   Distant commercial unit (5)
4   English leader in many attempts at raffles (9)
9   Ape Tom? No, Polly! (7)
10 Get oval perhaps from electromotive force (7)
11 Maybe one strange song (3,6)
12 Shade one wears against smear (5)
13 Gives in and produces (6)
15 Platform encloses everything rosier (8)
18 Love, write, rise with no top cover (4,4)
19 Agreement to keep son in marriage (6)
22 Copulates after board defeats (5)
24 Put incomes right inside data processors (9)
26 Spear in first using reel (7)
27 More caught Root; out! (7)
28 O! fly a wife around? Routine stuff! (3,2,4)
29 It spins both ways (5)

DOWN
1   Bachchan,say,in,extremely funny role of producer (7)
2   Attack's quiet fast (5)
3   1/0? Evade a bouncer (4,5)
4   Leave alone the French to place bets (4,2)
5   Rent Vera collected for inn keeper (8)
6   Brilliance celebrated but not of bad breed (5)
7   Ann involved in two draws produces absurd acts (9)
8   Runs helter-skelter seeking refuge (7)
14 Chosen line provided in power up (9)
16 Copper for example for Zubin Mehta (9)
17 Compositions of mixed concrete I have for engineer (8)
18 How alms are distributed as per current rule (4,3)
20 What Ravi Shankar might have said on not finding it? (2,5)
21 Hamper effort in current measure (6)
23 6-4 may be part of final score (3,2)

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Special, Sunday 04 Dec 2016, Springer

Welcome to our new setter Springer, Bouquets and Brickbats welcome.

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ACROSS
1   Song when etherised?(6)
4   Differential perhaps for Tintin's professor (8)
9   Threat for people's champion (6)
10 Lines & triangles tell me to go after George (8)
12 Loudest when leaders have one set out (8)
13 Support broken sector (6)
15 King understood no book (4)
16 At no time troubled Nell had critical review (4, 1, 5)
19 Perplexed, a stone I removed without ecstasy (10)
20 Cat-calls for unmodelled boots (4)
23 Tool for back- plane rent (6)
25 Solitaire game after release from prison…. (8)
27 ….Though Lock's got support (8)
28 Still joyful out of city (6)
29 All in all Rakish girl's removed for sailor (8)
30 This may end with Amen (6)

DOWN
1   Name Lawrence left for learner isn’t much (7)
2   I am not able to correct the beggar (9)
3   Father of ten (6)
5   Say, have east-end right (4)
6   Interest may be for enclosed area (8)
7   Eaters of this flower may be indolent (5)
8   Mouthpiece revels in mass hysteria (7)
11 Malign according to South East leaders (7)
14 Criminal ogles reportedly enrapt (3, 4)
17 Lovely tin broken furiously (9)
18 4 perhaps is necessary (8)
19 Gale blows support of branch (7)
21 Wire jointer quietly puts in knife (7)
22 Covert mysterious agent (6)
24 Study 1 in Indian monasteries (5)
26 Brief aide for a foolish model (4)

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