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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 – 19th June 2023
Clue: Harry Potter initially cast “Hocus Pocus”, conjuring food (8)
Answer: COUS COUS
Annotation: :{HOCUS POCUS- HP}*
Def: Food
Indicators: Cast – Deletion Indicator, Conjuring – Anagram Indicator
Solvers
24 solvers submitted, of which only 19 solvers got it correct.

TOP 3 Anupama, Gayathri and Eswaran
OTHERS
RATNAKUMAR
Anjali Vaidya
Srinath
Sibani
Ramki Krishnan
Sparsh Sinha
Arshad Nadamal
Sandhya PAruchuri
Jyothish Balakrishnan
Venkatraghavan S
Harish TK
Ratna Rao
Meera
Amarnath
Mahesh and
Madhup Tewari

Congrats to all those who cracked it.

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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