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Suyash (@suyash666) hosted this week and here’s his summary of the results…

First of all, thanks everyone for participating in the contest. It was a very close contest with 7 points separating the winner and 5th place.

In 5th place, we have a tie at 25 points, between Sowmya Ramkumar: Basically any nation’s traditional hymn expressed musically! (6) &Dave Williams: Most nations have one soldier standing in front of a border

In 4th place, with 26 points, is Ananth Srinivasan: Song meant to move & inspire the heart (6)

In 3rd place, with 28 points, is Diogeneb: Can the mountains provide air that’s stimulating? (6)

In 2nd place, with 29 points, is Manish Jhaveri: Song that inspires soldier perhaps on border (6)

And the winner of this contest, with 32 points, is Ganesh Raman with a lovely &lit clue: Slogan the motherland embraces!

Congratulations to all the winners! Many thanks to Sowmya for her help in running the contest.

Over to you, Ganesh Raman, for the next one.


Congrats Ganesh – 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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