1ACross presents “Guru Dakshina”, a special tribute puzzle put together by me along with 18 setters,  as our offering to the memory of C.G.Rishikesh aka Gridman

Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 20th May. 2021. All those who submit entries have a chance to enter our new leader board for 2021. Annotations for the puzzle will be discussed at 1ACross on Sunday, May. 23, 2021.

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Bonus Questions: 1. The first letters of all the clues is a cryptic clue set by Gridman. What is the solution? (5))

2. One of the lights in the grid is a solution to this clue by Gridman. “Committed reserve detectives drawn back to engage in exploit” What’s the annotation for Gridman’s clue?.

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The Team of Setters

The clues have been set by me alongside 18 other cruciverbalists from the 1ACross Facebook group viz., Aashwina Mouli, Ajeesh, Amrita Majumdar, Arvind Kannabiran, Bhalchandra Pasupathy, Debasmita Basu, Ganesh Nayak, Kishore Rao, Lakshmi Vaidyanathan, Manish Misra, Mona Sogal, Nicholas Loader, Ramesh Swaminathan, Ramki Krishnan, Santha Ramachandran, SSv Avtaar, Vasant Srinivasan and Vikram Chandrasekhar.

The Gridfill and editing was done by me.  My heartfelt gratitude to each of the setters who volunteered and came up with fabulous clues that makes this grid extra special.

This picture was taken in December 2014 when some of us met at Bhalchandra Pasupathy’s house in Chennai.