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Dr. Satyen Nabar was our host this week and we had fantastic participation with 49 clues and 58 voters allocating 580 points.

Satyen’s summary of the results..

GOLD won by a neat and succinct anagram clue

Attack in vain – so sad! (8)

Raj Jayaram with 41 points.

SILVER won by a smooth acrostic

Occupation resulting from leaders of important nations vacillating about seeking intervention of NATO (8)

Arjun Mukherjee with 37 points

BRONZE picked up by a witty anagram

Putin’s plan? Storming in with no visa (8)

Dr Mukund Jagannathan with 32 points

In 4th place is

Oddly, Vladimir’s non violence is offensive (8)

Madhusudan H with 31 points

Sharing 5th place with 27 points

Offensive entry with no visa perhaps (8)

Manish Jhaveri

Conquering insomnia? Very difficult, without some medicine! (8)

Samit Kallianpur

A huge thanks to Doc Satyen for hosting and choosing  a topical word that elicited some awesome clueing. Although many great clues did not get enough votes, I personally enjoyed the creativity of our talented setters.

Congrats Raj! Your clue is now in our HALL OF FAME. Over to you for the next contest.

Here’s the link to the full results

Notes: Some people did not vote, which is against the spirit of the game. In future, I request participants who may not be familair with our rules to take note and adhere to them..

An unusual voting pattern was detected with respect to a few clues. This included votes being cast to the same set of clues by some particpants whose names were not recognized. These votes were deemed invalid.

The intention is to have a fun contest to showcase creativity in cryptic clues. It is also a great opportunity to hone clueing skills and learn from the best setters. We urge all participants to respect the spirit of the 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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