ACROSS
1.Zakir Hussain’s musical instrument (5)
4.On which posters are made (10)
8.Giraffes (6)
13.Designer of clothing (9)
15.Former executed President of Iraq(6,7)
16.Eat immodestly (7)
17.Person who learns by rote (9)
18.Collects in one place (5)
19.An actor’s portrayal of someone in a play (10,4)
23.Native of Israel (7)
26.Without law (8)
28.Having four angles and four sides (12)
31.Straps to control a horse (5)
32.A traveling repairman (8)
33.Clouding of the eye’s lens (8)
36.Sugar-related illness (8)
37.Disjointed speech (8)
38.City in Finland (5)
40.Compressive (12)
42.Skin disease (7)
44.To spend a lot of money (7)
46.Europe (4,10)
49.Water at boiling temperature diffused in atmosphere (5)
50.Period of difficulties (9)
53.Mean (7)
55.Person who predicts your future(7,6)
56.Treat condescendingly (9)
57.Live in a certain place(6)
58.Desynchronization(10)
59.Boredom(5)
DOWN
1.Baron (6)
2.Famous Assamese musician who died in 2011(6,7)
3.Offensive comments (5)
4.An artist (7)
5.Appear like(8)
6.Command(5)
7.Partly sheltered anchorages(10)
9.Jammu &————— - it’s capital is Srinagar(7)
10.One thing at a time (9)
11.Epithelial duct(5)
12.Mother of Saif Ali Khan(8,6)
14.Aries(3)
20.Accumulation(9)
21.Customer(6)
22.Luxury(8)
24.Not consistent(10)
25.Secondary result in manufacturing(10)
27.Circular-shaped firework(9,5)
29.Gossip spread verbally (9)
30.Diwali or christmas?(8)
34.A deliberate act of acquisition(13)
35.Hitting tool(6)
39.Lady flight attendant(10)
41.Declare that a legal case will not be prosecuted (5,4)
43.Unchanged shape of an organism during growth (7)
45.Cast again(7)
47.Rich(7)
48.Inhabitant of Yemen(6)
49.More secure from threat of danger(5)
51.Sharp, hooked claw of bird(5)
52.Plant liquid(3)
54.Wear away(5)
Solution (GIGANTIKA No. 85)
ACROSS: 1. Axiom 4. Crosspatch 8. Etched 13. Appellate 15. Advertisement 16. Antenna 17. Metalwork 18. Roots 19. Bougainvillaea 23. Rematch 26. Saplings 28. Subordinated 31. Elegy 32. Parlanc E 33. Scavenge 36. Restores 37. Santiago 38. Guano 40. Hypothetical 42. Caryatid 44. Rivulet 46. Jean Paul Sartre 49. Comma 50. Twinkling 53. Cabbage 55. Pinus Contorta 57. Absent 58. Adjacently 59. Tinge.
DOWN: 1. Anabas 2. Imputuousness 3. Milan 4. Chapati 5. Scantily 6. Anvil 7. Corporator 9. Theorem 10. Haemostat 11. Dates 12. Hickory Dickory 14. Elm 20. Gypsywort 21. Vagary 22. Aguacate 24. Hodgepodge 25. Researcher 27. Implementation 29. Navigator 30. Maharaja 34. Neandertal Man 35. Xanadu 39. Disjointed 41. Pavements 43. Spoilage 45. Liaison 47. Secrecy 48. Beetle 49. Cuppa 51. Karma 52. Gap 54. Bleat.