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Manama Memoirs – Results

BySowmya

Nov 6, 2019 #Contest, #Crosswords, #Cryptic, #Cryptic Crossroads, #Gulf Weekly, #Manama Memoirs, #Prizes, #Winner

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Congrats to “Karthik Balagopal” who was the winner of the “Manama Memoirs” crossword contest that we had done exclusively for Gulf Weekly readers. The contest had a good response with 29 submissions from across the world.

Karthik was presented with a personalized copy of “Cryptic Crossroads Volume 2” during our  cryptic crossword workshop “Cracking Cryptics”, held at Capital Knowledge, in the Bahrain Financial Harbor on 1st November 2019.

Picture Courtesy: Gulf Weekly Bahrain

Picture Courtesy: Gulf Weekly Bahrain

The “Cracking Cryptics” workshop was well attended and the participants from different backgrounds enjoyed learning the nuances of cryptic clues and how to solve them,

Here is the link to the crossword and the full solutions (Clicking on “Reveal ALL” – will show you the full solutions and Annotations.

This can also be accessed in the PDF file here MANAMA MEMOIRS

Thanks to all of you who participated.

 

By Sowmya

Sowmya is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and independent financial consultant based in the Middle East (Bahrain). She is a puzzle editor at Amuselabs. She has set over 1,300 crosswords for various publications including over 1000 mini crosswords, cryptic crosswords (under the pseudonym Hypatia for The Hindu) and themed crosswords for Cat.a.lyst (part of The Hindu Businessline). Sowmya runs the Facebook group 1Across where seasoned cruciverbalists interact while setting and solving clues. She has published three compilations of crosswords viz Cryptic Crossroads Volumes 1, 2 and 3. She Tweets cryptic clues daily @somsram

One thought on “Manama Memoirs – Results”

  1. Well done Sowmya!
    It is good to see so many crossword solvers in Bahrain. Let their tribe increase!

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