Stats: 32 persons submitted answers, some with both grids.
The following persons (in alphabetical order) submitted both the grids:
Aashwina Mouli, Ashley Smith, Brian Dungate, Lakshmi Vaidyanathan, Manish Misra, Mona Sogal, Ramki Krishnan, Rengaswamy Narasimhan, Supriya Mithal and Uma Raghavan.
The following persons (in alphabetical order) submitted one or the other the grid:
Akshay Bhandarkar, Arun Kumar, Arvind Kannabiran, C Vasi , Craig Forthergill, Col. Deepak Gopinath, Ganesh Nayak, Guru Nataraj, Kaustav Dutta, Mohsin Ahmed, Mukundala Balasubramanyam, Naru MV, Neelima Rai, P Raghunath, Paddy Craven, Rishab Poddar, Sandhya Jagdish, Santha R, Sreenivasan N, Srinivas Venkatesh, Vignesh Kiran and Viresh Ratnakar.
Many did not indicate their choice of party, but a couple were quite clear of their choice. And, lastly, there was only one solver who submitted both the grids before we announced that there were two solutions, and deserves our Hearty Congratulations:
Hall of Fame entrants
Winner
Came late to the party. Enjoyed nevertheless. As with the Bob Hope/Bill Clinton Xword or the Euro final, this was right up there. A humdinger!
Congrats to the winner, Ramki.
Thanks to the setter, Kishore & to you Sowmya.
Thanks, Vasant. One small correction: It was Bob Dole, not Bob Hope! However, since some hope for a dole and a dole gives them hope, I think the equivalence can be accepted 🙂