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

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 is @diogeneb with 34 points for a clue that gets the green light from maximum voters
Red alerts reissued to contain the onset of Covid-19 (7)

At second place is Yossi Fendel, with 27 points
Will the English outlaw organized cartels? (7)

In the third place is N Anantakrishnan’s clue that gets 23 points
Red Alert! Leaders of Sena/ Congress rattled.

In the fourth place is @qpheevr’s clue that gets 22 points
Sommelier initially mixed up claret and another type of red (7)

Sharing the 5th place with 20 points each are
Suyash Roongta for Hot climax leaves Black Widow actress flushed (7) &
Ganesh Raman for Red alert ordered after first signs of sectarian clashes

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 @diogeneb for the next contest


Congrats Diogeneb – 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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