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Solution to Cracking Cryptics – 15th June 2023
Clue: Polished alloy of Vanadium and Steel (6)
Answer: SVELTE
Annotation: Def: Polished
Wordplay: Anagram of V STEEL
Anagram Indicator – Alloy of
Abbreviation – V for Vanadium
Solvers
Top 3 – Gayathri, Madhusudan H and Ratna Rao
Others – Srinath
Sarvesh
Radhika Anand
@drcheruvarun
sandhya paruchuri
VENKATESAN P.
R Nagendra Prasad
Tejas Siddharth
Jyothish Balakrishnan
Veena Venkataraman
Prasad RV
N. Rengaswamy
Priya Shyam
Sibani
Ramki Krishnan
Nilesh Parmar
Anjali Vaidya
Ranjani Srikanth
RK
Arshad Nadamal
Mahesh and
Lakshmi Prakash

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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