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Summary by the Host: Ananth Srinivasan

We had a whole bunch of new participants this time around with 29 clues and 36 voters. There were a whole load of high quality clues and voting was not an easy task.

In joint 4th place with 20 pts are

Anand Ranganathan – Watch dwarf in conversation near subway (9) and

Ramki Krishnan – It helps musician play modern tempo, without percussion drums, primarily (9)

In 3rd place with 29 pts is Sowmya Ramkumar with the very succinct charade

Old timer satisfied working in city (9)

In 2nd place with 35 pts is Manish Jhaveri with a lovely anagram/cryptic def in a very clever misleading surface

Timely reminder or memento perhaps (9)

Taking the honours this time with 44 pts is the veteran newcomer to 1accwc

@Diogeneb with a brilliant &lit
No more time glitches when one’s set off (9)

Full results below in the new #1ACCWC portal. 

Congrats @Diogeneb and over to you for the next contest.

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

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