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I post a clue daily in Twitter (https://twitter.com/somsram) and WA. Here’s the clue for today.

Solution to Cracking Cryptics – 18th June 2023
Clue: Head of family – a model woman and parent (6)
Answer: FATHER
Annotation: F A T HER
Def: Parent
Abbreviations: T – Model, Woman – Her
Indicators: Head of – For selection of first letter.
NOTE: Yesterday’s post got published without the pop-up for entering names initially. Hence, there is no specific Top 3 list for this and I have included the names of all those who solved and those who confirmed by DM after submitting earlier. In case you submitted, but your name isn’t appearing, do let me know.
Solvers
27 solvers got it correct and 1 got it wrong. Congrats to those who cracked it and trust the Fathers in this list had a wonderful Father’s day.

Ramki Krishnan
Gayathri Srinath
Anantha Kumar
Ratnakumar
Veeraraghavan
Madhusudan H
Raja
Ratna Rao
Supriya
Sujatha
Jyothish Balakrishnan
Venkatraghavan S.
Sparsh Sinha
ranjani Srikanth
sandhya paruchuri
Narayana swamy
Kabir Firaque
R Nagendra Prasad
Prasad RV
Arvind Ramaswamy
Anupama
Lakshmi Prakash
Ramesh Swaminathan
VENKATESAN P.
Sibani
Srinath
Mahesh

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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