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

As usual, we witnessed enthusiastic participation this week. Thanks to all who submitted their clues and voted
It was a close contest all the way through.

The winner of this round with 35 points is Manish Jhaveri, who lends a brilliant surface to his “Mann ki Baat”
Pampered Indian leader engineered Achche Din perhaps (4, 5)

Satyen Nabar dishes out a rather Dr.X-ish clue to take the 2nd spot with 31 points
Ripped male models firing lady’s fantasy (4,5)

For the third place, Avtaar’s novel use of the words ‘tweeted’ and ‘papers’ gets him 29 points
Fancy idea tweeted by some papers (4,5)

With 27 points, Ganesh Raman’s take on the state of present day media gets him the 4th place
Media rep paid to start spreading false hope (4-5)

In 5th place with 24 points, Mona Sogal takes us into the dream world of a plumber with just 2 words
Plumber’s fantasy? (4,5)

Congrats to all the winners!

As always, many thanks to Sowmya for her coordination and guidance in running the contest.

Passing the baton on to Manish Jhaveri for the next contest

Congrats Manish. 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: 1 person 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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