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We had 25 clues submitted and 29 voters. Special mention and thanks to @qpheevr, Ashit Hegde, Kabir Firaque, Ramesh Swaminathan and Ratna Rao 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.

The contest saw 25 clues and 29 voters. Drum roll, please! Here are the winners :-

Ramki Krishnan tops the charts with 29 points for

Relief after spending money to get topmost lawyer for case

Lakshmi Vaidyanathan is a close second with 28 points for

Got initial break in case

Ganesh Raman and Thejaswi Udupa tie for the third place with 20 points for

Suit is new – I gloat in it

AND

Oil giant worried about important case proceeding

Samit kallianpur is fourth with 18 points for

Suit’s tight? Alter it In Goa!

Kalyan Bandyopadhyay turns up fifth with 16 points for

Oil giant upset about Italian legal action

Honourable mentions to Adman_i, Sowmya Ramkumar, Sparsh Sinha, Arjun Mukherjee and Raj Jayaram

Thanks to everyone who played and voted. Over to Ramki for the next contest.

Here’s the link to the full results

SR: Congrats Ramki. – 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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