Sunday 2 February 2014

Special, Sunday 02 Feb 2014, 5th Anniversary Prize Jumbo, Col Deepak Gopinath


INSTRUCTIONS

1.  Since this is a prize crossword, no comments on the solutions to be shown anywhere on the blog. I will be moderating the comments between 8 AM on 02 Feb and 8 PM on 03 Feb so that no one inadvertently reveals a solution.

2.  Solutions may be sent to my e-mail : deepakgita@gmail.com in the following formats  :-
     (a) Screen shot or an image of the completed grid  or
     (b) As a word document (Annotated solutions will have to be in this format).
     
3.   Following prizes will be given. Only one prize per head [to ensure that Mohsin doesn't bag both :-)], by chance in case someone wins more than one then prize at (a) below will go to the next person selected at random.
      (a) Prize for all correct entry. This prize winner will be a computerised random selection from the all
      correct entries.
      (b) Prize for the first entry with correct annotations (annos to match with annos as intended by me).
     
4.  Entries will be received till 8 PM (as per my computer clock) on 03 Feb 2014.

5.  Results with solutions will be displayed on the 5th anniversary of the blog i.e., at 8 AM on 04 Feb 2014. The regular blog of 04 Feb will appear at 9 AM.

6.   Each entry to be accompanied with a soft copy of your photograph, postal address and contact numbers.

7.  My decision as sole judge  (I have my wife's permission to say so), will be final and binding and cannot be contested in any court :-)



ACROSS
1   – Umlauts are modern with polar reversal, provided one is inside (9)
6   – Making ready for action peacekeeper’s member sheltering the second half (11)
12 – Jockey ring, all needed, used to lace meat with fat (7,6)
13 – Shallow basket with small mollusc (7)
14 – Man as Prince of Wales’ heaths (6)
15 – Kettle of fish repast for dog’s dinner (4)
16 – Aromatic plant? Capital flower (4,5)
18 – Sweet dish brings out expression of surprise, using damp dishcloth initially laundered (9,7)
20 – Primarily the route undertaken easily was exact (4)
22 – Expunge power inside to exhaust (7)
24 – Merge, to capitulate over a greenhorn at home (5,2)
26 – Positive or negative stimulus primarily inside nascent programs undergoing testing (5)
27 – Cooked-up stories one found tucked in with reference to a cooking appliance (10)
29 – I get social, remarkably exercising an ‘I’ specialist’s trait (10)
32 – Boarded transport to go north (3,2)
33 – Drink for a careless abstainer losing Bachelor of Arts from the US (7)
34 – Football player left in a sewer (7)
36 – A troublesome situation to over-infuse (4)
37 – Unruliness shocked our present bosses (16)
41 – Having lots of space reportedly most cold and damp (9)
42 – 27 is used in this (4)
44 – Shower liberally to look narrowly by proxy inside (6)
46 – Make up an aircraft belly landing (7)
47 – Gloriously almost sick with passionate desire, seriously, without limited sex (13)
48 – Lever the French with unknown cane extract sweet (6,5)
49 – Whisk, for example, German speculator taking note (3,6)

DOWN
1   – Drink turned over, about deficient detective being turned over (6,5)
2   – Do away with backward row to get more dishonest (7)
3   – One class without a student observed in free preparation (9)
4   – Nits for example with hollow goods (4)
5   – Refuse-basket for South Indian first lady (5)
6   – Foreign dudes put in are not challenged (10)
7   – Bled with percolated report (7)
8   – Incorrect articulation by short young lady and professional sister at agency initially taking it on (16)
9   – Supplies base with knick-knacks (6)
10 – Area between 23.4378 N and S (13)
11 – Greek not at all difficult, but most slippery (9)
17 – I am a writer of alternate letters and competent over a headland having an impervious feature (16)
19 – Hold fast below a pronounced stone chest (7)
21 – Where money is coined time after time (4)
23 – Short small-made from French derisive remark over a French meal (5-8)
25 – Remove cooking deposits with electric flux, for example, to be idle (7)
28 – Appropriate surreptitiously moral transgression of King (4)
30 – Noble’s plea is what the messiah taught his disciples (5,6)
31 – Distraught Nicole wore a temperature lowering apparatus (4,6)
32 – Air, say but turn back to head off drop inside an upscale restaurant cum bar (9)
35 – Escaroles used to prepare a dish (9)
38 – Making lace with that thing when husband is absent (7)
39 – Elaborate exhibition model (7)
40 – Setter’s confession of being ashen and run through (6)
43 – To follow every other teen is rude (5)
45 – Brick kiln waste for beer down under (4)



To attempt the crossword on a separate page follow the link 5th ANNIVERSARY PRIZE JUMBO

All the best.

24 comments:

  1. Wow Deepak! Really nice one.

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  2. Come on people send in your entries.
    I've received only 4 so far!! Don't worry your entries even if received late may be the all correct one and after all the winner is going to be picked at random from the all correct entries. If there are no all correct then it will go to the entry with the least errors.

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  3. I got some at first look. My printer has conked out. Can't get the grid printed outside since it is a Sunday. Can't try solving manually. :-(

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  4. Unable to open on Across Lite. Am I doing something wrong?

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    1. Sorry I could not work on it since I could not download on Acrosslite earlier and I was on a flight and travelling after that. Look forward to the next one.

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  5. Looks like the CW has turned out to be a humdinger of a CW as most of the regulars who chip in with answers on the Sunday specials have not sent in their entries :-(

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  6. A fitting finale to the fourth year of operations.

    The blog presents a true critique of the setters' talent and skills, and portrays them ('warts and all'). Any special effort, like a thematic crossword, a nina and a pangram, is quickly spotted and commended. Flawed setting is also commented on. The setters also get an opportunity to react to the comments. Several of them have come forward to unmask themselves in this blog.

    The blog has intricately woven itself into being an integral part of our daily lives. We look forward to K's cartoons, diverting anecdotes and histories, and the Sunday Specials.

    We take pride in the achievements of our co-bloggers as authors, scriptwriters, poets and setters. We have seen history rewound for us in the form of the very first Cryptic set by Admiral for The Hindu.

    We have celebrated national days and venerated heroes in various walks of life.

    This blog has been a veritable learning resource centre for newcomers. That they have quickly come up to speed and are matching mettle with veterans speaks in large measure for the quality of this blog and the guidance by those very veterans.

    We also get to learn of (and empathise with) the likes, dislikes and circumstances of fellow bloggers.

    Three Cheers to the THC Crossword Corner blog and Col. Hip, Hip, Hurray!

    PS: I have picked out the three clues which I expect K will honour with this graphic toons. Let me see if my guesses come out right.

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    1. SR,
      You could send the clues you have picked to Kishore and I shall put in his cartoons with the solutions on 04 Feb

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    2. SR, you are free to send in your suggestions directly to me at kishoremrao@hotmail.com. I have already drawn one for 17a and I plan to draw some more today morning. So please send your mail early. I don't want to inundate the special with too many of them.

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  7. As of 11 PM only 6 entries received. I'm not saying if they are all correct as I have yet to check them. So those who have not sent in their entries can still do so upto 8 PM tomorrow ie 03 Feb

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    1. Deepak:
      As expressed by other bloggers, it can't be that there are not enough entries. I have informed you by email of my inability to send in my entry in the format suggested. Like me, there could be others too-- say like Richard.
      Is there no other way?

      Screen shots and photo print via paints etc are quite no areas of computing. Maybe, I'll learn them by and by but what happens to the entry , which is now time-limit-free? I tried my best to send you some [pic of the solved attempt as four segments. Any good? Naah !!

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    2. Deepak: Quite unlikely that that there are not enough entries ! Could be that most of them have not found the system of Acroos lite very user friendly. As I told you in my em,ail. I have managed to complete the crossie which is a magnificent attempt at compiling.. Like me, ichard ahs also found himsel;facing a fire wall ! So is there no other way of reaching the entries ?

      I had tried to take a camera chot of my entry with four separate segments. Did it help?

      I wish we are able to see many entries in an easier format !

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  8. Deepak: My congrats to you for the wonderful Jumbo pack of gift on our anniversary. A very fitting
    tribute to the talent of the compiler.

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  9. I would like to know how many of the Sunday special regular commenters did not submit their entries because they did not complete the CW. Please do submit your entries even if there are unsolved answers. How do you'll know if the others who have submitted have sent in all the correct answers?

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  10. I have completed but CANNOT submit due to as they say: Technical reasons :1

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  11. Col Sir,
    I did not submit because I am left with 6 more clues (3 across and 3 down) yet to be solved. As I am not tech savvy, I'll have to wait for my daughter's arrival (from office) to help me submit the incomplete/completed CW answers.

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  12. For all those who are not tech savvy, all you have to do is type out the answers in a word document and send them across (just type the clue number and the answer, if you want to show the annotation type that out as well next to the answer.)

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    1. This is a good idea that came in too late? I'll try and reconstruct my solution all over again and send it right away !

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  13. Nicely constructed pangram. Was looking for the Nina but have not been able to spot it

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  14. Col Sir,
    Submitted the incomplete Sunday Spl Cw just now. Out of 52, I could solve only 46. Hope, at least 40 of them will be correct ! Took instructions over phone from my daughter to submit my answers !
    It's a great learning curve for me, to know the technicalities of 'internet' :)

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  15. Entries closed. Comments no longer being moderated

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