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Suyash provided the word for this week but since he was travelling, I stood-in for him for hosting duties. Here are the results..

This week’s contest saw decent participation with 31 entries and 35 voters. Here are the top entries….

In 5th place was Ganesh Raman’s “Healing considerably after core workout” which picked up 19 votes.

In 4th was Manish Jhaveri’s “Literally everybody goes for insurance renewal [8]”  with 4 more votes at 23

In 3rd place was Avtaar’s “Queen turned up with mask before the start of yearly rally (8)” with 31 votes

In 2nd place was Sowmya Ramkumar’s (my) “Rupee firm in each rally (8)” with 33 votes.

The winner of this week’s contest is Dave Williams with 38 points for ‘Getting back on top? Yes!’.

Congrats on your second Gold, Dave – 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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