Special, No THCC 6633, 26 Jun 2022

Thanks to Pradeep Raghunathan, I am posting the THC of 03 Jan 2000, he gave me the Across Lite file for the same. I think those were the days when the setters name was not given in the byline. So let us see who can identify the setter. after all the answers come in.

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Special, Sunday 20 Feb 2022, THC 7703 from 19 Jun 2003

Blast from the past. After all answers are in try and guess who the setter is.

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Special, THC No 6632, 03 Jan 2000

Thanks to Pradeep Raghunathan, I am posting the THC of 03 Jan 2000, he gave me the Across Lite file for the same. I think those were the days when the setters name was not given in the byline. So let us see who can identify the setter. after all the answers come in.

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ACROSS

1   Heaven is in a ceremonial march (8)

5   Horrified by a ghostle head, has temperature (6)

10 Public speech has to avoid extremes and show proportion (5)

11 He sold ale to get rented property (9)

12 Venerable old lady, one blending with charm and art (9)

13 African province at birth (5)

14 Paying your part of the bill? What a treat! (5)

16 Subversive brutes - a ring busted (8)

18 Suddenly attacked, exhausted after morning (8)

20 Cut into cubes, passed away holding key (5)

24 Sweet girl that is after a share (5)

25 European community split in allowances for responses (9)

27 Breaking an idle set, they show the time and place on top of newspaper stories (9)

28 Relative returning from Greece in triumph (5)

29 Get off from the ship like a bachelor in a state of ignorance (6)

30 Abated after last month but expired (8)

DOWN

1   Soft, dim ray deflected by huge construction (7)

2   Deserter at a time sounds like knocing on the door (7)

3   Burning in the environs of Delhi? This is the garment for you (5)

4   Alas, Roy is heartless about remuneration (6)

6   Forest of immature trees? (9)

7   Evangelist could stop ale flowing (7)

8   Child unsteady on his feet (7)

9   Stupid chap with a stout nut? (7)

15 In the rolls 'e is cast as a resident in the campus (9)

17 Give the girl a call for fish (7)

18 Agreed to a measure supported by two pressmen (7)

19 Container for ablution (7)

21 Summertime equipment for prisons (7)

22 Go down in a bad scene in extremes of dread (7)

23 For a lass he generates a lot of trouble (6)

26 Impart a slight trace of elemnt, germanium in short (5)

Enjoy.

Special, THC No 6631, 01 Jan 2000

Thanks to Pradeep Raghunathan, I am posting the THC of 01 Jan 2000, he gave me the Across Lite file for the same. I think those were the days when the setters name was not given in the byline. So let us see who can identify the setter. after all the answers come in.

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ACROSS

1   Can a regulation bar change of the governor? (13)

10 The fag for the tar conscious (6,3)

11 Member of group of activists has anxiety about daughter (5)

12 Change girl with short point (5)

13 Rich upper-class mate suffering from painful joints (9)

14 Return to hint about English jacket (6)

16 Prison guard with a twist? (5)

19 Graduates in a sheltered area (5)

20 Confused dad, showed the way (6)

25 English officer first to hold record as one who cares about the environment (9)

26 Government seal for old gold coin (5)

27 The fragrance of an Italian city (5)

28 Wandering Beduin, Ali, cannot be heard (9)

29 Strong and in good health but developed a leathery hand (4,3,6)

DOWN

2   The kind of gas for new cars (8)

3   Occurrence prevented in the centre (5)

4   Disposition of attributes (6)

5   Little money one may have no care for (8)

6    Advice with reference to firm measure to finish... (9)

7   .... accounts inspections (6)

8   Happening to be a very loud tune (6)

9   Absence of war reveals rate of progress around the east (5)

15 Trouble over a tape may make one disappear (9)

17 Mediterranean islander, endlessly ailing, meets the Italian and a Scot (8)

18 Set of 26 in English (8)

21 Construction with a gable roof survives even in strong wind or merciless weather (6)

22 Part of flower consumed up in small plate (5)

23 Circle of light around luminous body, cigar maybe (6)

24 Manoeuvre hat and cat to connect (6) 

26 A dime wasted on radio and TV, say (5)

Across Lite version can be accessed at THC 6631

Enjoy.

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Nayantara Narayanan is a freelance journalist in Bangalore, and a former news producer for CNBC-TV18.