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We had 29 clues and 38 voters with all participants voting and then some:) A shout out to all of you who participated and those who contributed with some insightful comments. Great hosting by Dr. Satyen Nabar this week and here’s his summary of the results…

A fantastic header wins the game! 

A sport where forwards outrun opponents, tackle blockers and land lethal headers (8)

Madhusudan H with 39 points 

Playing well in 2nd place is  

France to Brazil – basically all love playing this game

N Anantakrishnan with 29 points 

Entertaining in 3rd place is 

Set up some recreational lab to offer a means of entertainment 

Textrous with 28 points

Bicycle kicking in 4th place is 

Bicycle kick stopping defeat in game 

Sowmya with 21 points 

Finally, batting in 5th place with 20 points apiece are 

Global phenomenon of flu, essentially, after ignoramus eats diseased bat

Nicholas Loader 

Clinical lab to offer partial backing for competitive activity with fake injuries

@LowdownCryptic 

Thanks everyone for playing…passing the ball to you Madhusudan!

Congrats Madhu – 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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