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@LowdownCryptic hosted this week and here’s his summary of the results..

As the host this week, I enjoyed going “behind the scenes” of the competition and seeing how things work. There was a nice variety of clues for MANUSCRIPT and we ended up with very close results in the voting.

1st place goes to Lily Geller with 31 points, winning for the 2nd time in three weeks!
Arcane stamp with runic handwriting (10)

In 2nd place is Debasmita, just like last week! With 30 points, she was just one point behind the winner (can’t get much closer than that!).
Ancient Indian’s tomb is gutted, including one hand written document (10)

In 3rd place it’s Gayathri Viswanath with 24 points for a very concise anagram clue.
Text made Putin scram (10)

In 4th place we have Madhusudan H (our winner from two weeks ago) with 23 points.
Original text of super-romantic novel isn’t semi-erotic (10)

And 5th place goes to Myra Shah with 18 points.
Handwritten notebook from Camus? Print ordered! (10)

Thanks to all of you for playing and voting! Like last week, everyone who submitted a clue also voted. Now I’m handing it over to Lily Geller
to choose a word and be our gracious host again!

Thanks @LowdownCryptic for hosting.

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

Here’s the link to the full results

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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