Over the last year, we had 52 weekly contests and 20 different setters winning the weekly contests, 2 more than the 18 in 2020. There were four occasions when there were ties for the Top Spot.
For the fourth consecutive year, Satyen Nabar topped the leaderboard winning 10 contests. In joint second place are Amrita Majumdar and Manish Jhaveri with 6 wins each. In joint third are Ramki Krishnan and SSv Avtaar with 5 wins each. Satyen now has the maximum number of 1ACCWC wins at 42, followed by Ramki with 37 and Avtaar with 23.
Here is the Leaderboard for the year..
| Setter | # wins |
| Satyen Nabar | 10 |
| Amrita Majumdar | 6 |
| Manish Jhaveri | 6 |
| Ramki Krishnan | 5 |
| SSv Avtaar | 5 |
| Ananth Srinivasan | 3 |
| Thejaswi Udupa | 3 |
| Saurabh Upadhyay | 2 |
| Anantakrishnan Narayanan | 2 |
| Ajeesh V M | 2 |
| Gayathri Viswanath | 2 |
| Veera Raghavan Sundararajan | 2 |
| Deepa Jhaveri | 1 |
| Ganesh Nayak | 1 |
| Sowmya Ramkumar | 1 |
| Samit Kallianpur | 1 |
| Camelia Oberoi | 1 |
| Debbie Manber Kupfer | 1 |
| Manish Misra | 1 |
| Maya Sharma | 1 |
Here are the winning clues. I thoroughly enjoyed going through them again..
Comment with the answers if you can crack them. Also, let us know which ones were your favorites.
| S.NO | Winner | Winning Clue |
| 1 | Satyen Nabar | Kamala is elected, curbing unease (7) |
| 2 | Satyen Nabar | Fellow orchestrating scams across India for authoritarian rule (7) |
| 3 | Satyen Nabar | Thought of poison in cocktail to get rid of missus finally (7) |
| 4 | Satyen Nabar | Mutter softly perhaps? Quite the opposite (7) |
| 5 | Satyen Nabar | Enduringly popular revenge novel about woman killing husband (9) |
| 6 | Satyen Nabar | Covers at ground? It’s cloudy (8) |
| 7 | Satyen Nabar | Unreliable faction seizes power after America withdraws (7) |
| 8 | Satyen Nabar | One-man concert put up without preparation (9) |
| 9 | Satyen Nabar | Mysterious criminal nurtures a plan to kill nationalist (12) |
| 10 | Satyen Nabar | Flu left cleric shivering in round trip (4,6) |
| 11 | Amrita Majumdar | Doubt a doctor with innocent face is responsible for killing 50 (9) |
| 12 | Amrita Majumdar | Old and miserable without a plan (6) |
| 13 | Amrita Majumdar | Post retirement, lived in father’s house (10) |
| 14 | Amrita Majumdar | Capitals of Chile and Peru with extremely temperate weather (7) |
| 15 | Amrita Majumdar | An introduction to visual art in a new form (7) |
| 16 | Amrita Majumdar | Silver set used for celebration (9) |
| 17 | Manish Jhaveri | Rioters who, with leader gone, get thrown in gaols (9) |
| 18 | Manish Jhaveri | Clampdown by leader disregarded by some (6) |
| 19 | Manish Jhaveri | Like jewellery worn at exclusive shows (6) |
| 20 | Manish Jhaveri | Roleplay involved sex in drag (6) |
| 21 | Manish Jhaveri | Fancy swansong (8) |
| 22 | Manish Jhaveri | Need a suspect in murder case to talk more than necessary (7) |
| 23 | Ramki Krishnan | Troubled vicar enters empty priory to get solitude (7) |
| 24 | Ramki Krishnan | Beats criminal as he steals sandwiches (6) |
| 25 | Ramki Krishnan | Malware: Case of phones getting infected by careless usage (7) |
| 26 | Ramki Krishnan | At war, sergeant starting to enlist minors (9) |
| 27 | Ramki Krishnan | Chief Advocate beheaded!! (6) |
| 28 | SSv Avtaar | It’s a fact -nation’s leader is sneaky and unbelievable (9) |
| 29 | SSv Avtaar | Can US zeal free blocked route for ships ? (4,5) |
| 30 | SSv Avtaar | Mock parade is organised, welcoming leader in Gujarat (9) |
| 31 | SSv Avtaar | Top of the shelf scent (5) |
| 32 | SSv Avtaar | What essentially glistens gaudily (6) |
| 33 | Ananth Srinivasan | Speculate about a strike (4) |
| 34 | Ananth Srinivasan | Editorial left reviewer scratching head (6) |
| 35 | Ananth Srinivasan | Nun shelters wingless elves of the woodland (9) |
| 36 | Thejaswi Udupa | With Shah, this person drunk on power becomes macho Sanghi male (12) |
| 37 | Thejaswi Udupa | Most reliable, well-organized, open-minded person (7) |
| 38 | Thejaswi Udupa | Worry about plague causing widespread destruction (7) |
| 39 | Ajeesh V M | Very rarely announce old mobile updates (4,2,1,4,4) |
| 40 | Ajeesh V M | Old man dancing and playing musical instrument (8) |
| 41 | Anantakrishnan Narayanan | Look out! One has been arrested by heartless tyrant for document on social media campaign (7) |
| 42 | Anantakrishnan Narayanan | A date in Paris, ending in love and bliss (8) |
| 43 | Gayathri Viswanath | Student lost in close battle (7) |
| 44 | Gayathri Viswanath | Fixture found in bathroom – mirror, perhaps? (6) |
| 45 | Saurabh Upadhyay | Friendship takes a turn after overcoming serious doubt (9) |
| 46 | Saurabh Upadhyay | Neeraj returned after vacation to dominate a live sporting event (7) |
| 47 | Veera Raghavan Sundararajan | Parliament has no right to take over university, deceptively getting control (10) |
| 48 | Veera Raghavan Sundararajan | Sad when setter was killed by a mammal (4,5) |
| 49 | Camelia Oberoi | Win by conservative party after corruption is reduced (7) |
| 50 | Debbie Manber Kupfer | Holiday trims cash dramatically! (9) |
| 51 | Deepa Jhaveri | Motera, say, must aid spin (7) |
| 52 | Ganesh Nayak | Fiasco in bed: upset over another clear failure to climax (7) |
| 53 | Manish Misra | Cut ‘n’ saw routine (9) |
| 54 | Maya Sharma | Primarily stock prices indicate key economic projection (5) |
| 55 | Samit Kallianpur | A drug bust?…One by a new warden! (8) |
| 56 | Sowmya Ramkumar | Naipaul met eccentric doctor (10) |