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Suyash Roongta was our host and here’s his summary of the results.

Thanks everyone for taking part in this week’s contest. We got some amazing clues. But the ones that we couldn’t turn a blind eye to were the following.

Coming in 5th place with 27 points is

@drcheruvarun –

“Ruin act in play by bringing this down prematurely?”

Just ahead in 4th place is @LowdownCryptic with 28 points –

“Something you pull back or shorten, shedding a bit of light mid-morning.”

In second place we have a tie at 30 points between Ganesh Raman –

“Losing last bit of vision, perhaps I can turn blind”

AND Textrous –

“Blind cat straying around old city home”

Topping this week’s contest is Satyen Nabar with 34 points –

“Dog can have glaucoma, eventually becoming blind”.

Congratulations to all the winners. As always, many thanks to Sowmya for helping with organizing the contest.

And with that, CURTAIN. Here’s the link to the full results

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

Also Check out the 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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