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

Thanks to this week’s participants, and well done to the top five, who all garnered over 20 points of votes. Quite a variety of wordplay in use, as I’d hoped when I picked the word – mostly anagrams but at least lots of different ones … and many ways of disguising the definition!

But by a margin of twelve points, the winner is @inwitinwit, with a nice smooth fiscal-policy surface. Congratulations, it’ll be your turn next!

Close jostling for the silver and bronze, with only four points separating 2nd, 3rd and 4th places. Lovely prizegiving imagery in Veera Raghavan’s second-place clue, and a clever def as red-herring anagram-indicator in @LowdownCryptic’s third.

Have a good week!

Congrats @inwitinwit – 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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