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Lily Geller hosted this week and here’s her summary of the results..

With an impressive batch of clues and voters vying to ADVOCATE for the best ones, it’s time to congratulate our winners!

In first place, N Anantakrishnan served an ace, securing 49 points with a timely tennis clue:
Essentially, Novak acted improperly for a champion (8)

The rest of our top five are separated from one another by only a point – it was a close fight to the finish!

In second place with 31 points, Suyash Roongta kept us up-to-date with the news:
Endorser of CAA voted out (8)

In third place with 30 points, Raj Jayaram submitted to the jury:
Lawyer surprisingly vacated top office (8)

In fourth place with 29 points, Ananth Srinivasan is the architect of this clue:
Redesign old vacated lobby (8)

In fifth place with 28 points, our intrepid organizer Sowmya Ramkumar brings us back to tennis:
Battling Covid, Australia had deported one champion (8)

Thanks to everyone who participated in cluing and voting, and thanks again to Sowmya for her efforts coordinating the contest.

Now over to N Anantakrishnan for the next contest!

Thanks Lily Geller for hosting.

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

Here’s the link to the full results

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

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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