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

Firstly, thanks to all for making the time, to participate in the contest – in setting clues as well as voting!

In 5th place, with 25 points, we have Nicholas Loader: Appeal of racism has developed destroying society [8]

In 4th place, with 27 points, is N Anantakrishnan: Appeal of tea seller (finally) is beginning to melt away [8]

In 3rd place, with 28 points, we have Ananth Srinivasan: Pull Ma’s chair out [8]

In 2nd place, with 38 points, is @LowdownCryptic: Christmas holds a timeless, endless charm [8]

The 1st place, with 42 points, goes to Madhusudan H: Leaders of Congress hallucinate about Rahul inheriting Sonia’s money and appeal [8]

Thanks to Sowmya Ramkumar for coordinating the whole contest!

Congratulations to all, and over to you, Madhusudan!

Congrats Madhusudan – Your clue is now in our HALL OF FAME.

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

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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