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Lily Geller hosted this week and here’s her summary of the results..(Thanks for staying up late just to wrap up the contest.)

Thanks to all the setters who took time to SPRING into action for this week’s contest, and congrats to our winners!

In first place with 46 points, Madhusudan H delivers an inspiring sports comeback story:
After regular losses, Super Kings struck boundaries to bounce back (6)

In a very close second with 45 points, Ramki Krishnan offers some sound romantic advice:
It’s the season of love – rush to spend time with girl (6)

In third place with 36 points, Satyen Nabar brings us back to cricket:
Runs limited by turn and good bounce (6)

In fourth place with 32 points, Amrita keeps the cricket theme going:
R.P Singh mostly played well (6)

And rounding out our top five with 23 points, Arjun Mukerjee reports the news:
“For starters,” said Putin, “Russia is never going to pay!” (6)

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

Now over to Madhusudan H for the next contest!

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

Here’s the link to the full results and you can see how you have been faring this year from our cumulative Leaderboard.

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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