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We had 33 clues and 37 voters. Saurabh was our host and here’s his summary of the results. (Thanks for the fabulous hosting and an interesting word with many possibilities – SR).

We had some great clues in this contest. A wide variety of clues, it was particularly nice to see a bunch of letter banks! It was a very close finish in the end. Without further ado, here are the results of the contest:

Scoring 24 points, in Fifth place is @LowdownCryptic with

Pot user increasingly confused and nonsensical (12)

Scoring 25 points, in Fourth place is Satyen Nabar with

Spot superhero flying out of hotel! That’s incredible (12)

Scoring 29 points, in Third place is Kalyan Bandyopadhyay with

Comical when trousers begin to expand and pop loose (12)

Scoring 35 points, in Second place is William Snow (@ContoCrosswords) with

Pope dancing with trousers off is unthinkable (12)

And just pipping him to the First place, scoring 37 points, is Samit Kallianpur with a very topical clue

Broadcast: “Europe stops war at last!…That’s incredible!”

Here’s the link to the full results

Thanks to everyone and over to you, Samit!

SR: Congrats Samit – Your clue is now in our HALL OF FAME.

Also Check out the new Leaderboard for 2023.

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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