@inwitinwit hosted this week and here’s his summary of the results…
This week, there was a slight uptick in the number of contestants, up 6 to 33.
In first place, by a 6-point margin and with a whopping 40 points, is Ananth Srinivasan’s clue, which uses “fuel ran” as anagram fodder (a popular choice).
I love it when an &lit comes together; Raj Jayaram has given us just that with his second-place winning entry. Its elegant deletion — “lacking in joy” — captures the funereal mood.
Just 3 points separate the next 4 finishers. In third place is another “fuel ran out” anagram, this one from Kalyan Bandyopadhyay.
Diogeneb’s fourth-place winner spans the vast gulf between birth and death. Is the period in between — like Diogeneb’s word play — a charade?
And finally, we have a two-way tie for fifth place between Dave Williams’s cryptic definition and
@LowdownCryptic’s banking(!)-every-other-letter hidden-word clue.
Thanks to all the participants and congratulations to the top finishers. Over to you, Ananth, for the next round.
Congrats Ananth – 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.