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Ganesh (@ganeshr88) hosted this week and here’s his summary of the results…

We had a total of 29 entries this week for CAPITALIST.

With 18 points each, Maya Sharma (Perhaps New Delhi’s first industrialist) and N Anantakrishnan (“Beat It” – a record money-spinner!) jointly share the 6th position.

In 5th place, we have Yossi Fendel with 19 points “Plutocrat who shouts on the internet?”

In 4th place, we have Venkatesan P with 21 points for “Leading Income Tax authorities to probe suspicious plastic moneybags”

And the podium finishers….

In 3rd place, Diogeneb scores 22 points for “I primarily support trade”

In 2nd place is Manish Jhaveri with 35 points for “Cricket’s premier hit, Tata IPL, is a money-spinner”

And this week’s winner with 44 points is @qpheevr for “Supplier of dough for California flatbread menu”

Congrats, @qpheevr! And over to you for the next clue.

Congrats @qpheevr – 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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