I am glad many of you found it worth the effort trying to solve this grid.
I learnt that there were some difficulties for some of you in the online tool.
I too had some difficulty on checking the web for the submitted solution. Fortunately every submission was also sent to me as an email which displayed correctly on my laptop.
Here comes the solutions first as a filled grid, then with brief explanations, finally follwed by the names of solver.
1. Not decided to mix in fine diet (10) INDEFINITE anagram of "IN FINE DIET"
7. Recollect old events with a different ending and pull back (7) RETRACT = RETRACE-E + T
8. Wind the ends of grenade around the arabic (4) GALE = GE (ends of grenade in AL
10. Without any addition rhythm of poetry lacks essence (4) MERE = METRE - T (Instead of a proposal he sent me a mere sketch)
11. Guards despatched to driest centre (8) SENTRIES = SENT + RI ('driest' centre)
13. Go places and talk excitedly in the heart of Portland (6)
TRAVEL = TL (PORTLAND centre ) + RAVE (talk excitedly)
15. Go forward and backward before the French and seek information (6)
GOOGLE = GO + OG + LE
17. Tear flows around possessor who has no right and is famous (8)
RENOWNED = REND (tear) + OWNER -R
18. Plants left out platforms for discussion (4) FORA = FLORA -L
21. Initially untrained slaves expected remuneration from employer (4)
USER (first letters of 4 words)
22. Mark to violently trim trimmed spine (7) IMPRINT = TRIM + SPINE - SE
23. A city inn has got water initially treated (10) WASHINGTON anagram of INN HAS GOT with W(ater)
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1. Put in a grave at home followed by better half (5) INTER = IN (at home) + (bet)TER
2. Something tedious initially difficult to harass (4) DRAG = D + RAG
3. To make plump stuff at tenfold rate inside (6) FATTEN (hidden in the clue)
4. A gas within it Silver went up in denial (8) NEGATION = AG (silver),
IT upwards inside NEON (gas)
5. Variety of glint around a foreign article is effective (7) TELLING = GLINT + EL (spanish definite article)
6. Too early to again twist in pristine surroundings (9) PREMATURE = RE (again) MAT (twist) in PURE
9. Language of Mid-West part one gets confused with (9) ESPERANTO (an artificial language) = ES (mid west) + PART + ONE
12. Measure of wealth distributed to a planet without a town (3,5)
NET WORTH = EARTH - A + TOWN
14. Men in confusion in a continent can't remember the condition (7)
AMNESIA = MEN in ASIA
16. Just like average it additionally holds half a dime (6) MEDIAN = MEAN + DI (median, like mean, is a statistical indicator of a data )
19. Gold particle, charged for the hunter (5) ORION (hunter in Greek mythology ) = OR + ION
20. Detect stain (4) SPOT (two meanings)
The following 11 persons had solved it completely.
1. Kesavan
2. Ramki Krishnan
3. Ravi Subramanian
4. Siddhan Subramanian
5. Raju Umamaheswar
6. Sandhya
7. S R Balasubramanian
8. Raja Rangarajan
9. Lakshmi Shankar
10. Dr Ramakrishna Easwaran
11. Ambika
Other submissions:
Dhayanand Bhaskar, Chaturvasi (incomplete with 1 missing answer)
The following people's submissions were incomplete with 4 or more answers missing:
M Kannan
N T Nathan
Meenakshi Ganapathi
M K Raghavan
Hari Balakrishnan
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