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We had 22 clues submitted and 27 voters. Special mention and thanks to Gayathri Viswanath, Lakshmi Vaidyanathan, Manish Jhaveri, Ratna Rao and R. Nagendra Prasad who took time to vote in the contest even though they had not posted clues.

@Textrous was our host and here’s his summary of the results.

This contest saw 22 clues and 27 voters. Here’s a synopsis of the results :-

Satyen Nabar tops the charts (yet again) with 39 points for

Hear opium’s fantastic, leaving many in bliss

Raj Jayaram is runner-up with 31 points for the pleased-as-pie

Cooking Hour: “A Pie Makes Happiness”!

Kalyan Bandyopadhyay is second runner-up with a wild 25 points for

Ecstasy sets out wild house parties

Ramki Krishnan is fourth with this uplifiting offering for 22 points

Joy and new hope overwhelming you, on hearing uplifting song

Sparsh Sinha is ecstatically fifth with 19 points for

Ecstacy ruined her timeless utopia

Thanks to everyone who played and voted. Over to you Satyen!

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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