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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 – 27th June 2023
Clue: Bet lyric’s composed about English star (9)
Answer: CELEBRITY
Annotation: : Anagram of BET LYRIC around E
Def: Star
Abbreviation: E – English
Anagram Indicator – Composed
Containment Indicator – About

Solvers

The game was loaded by 57 unique players. 25 solvers submitted and 23 got it correct. 1 was anonymous.

TOP 3: Gayathri, @drcheruvarun and Ratna Rao

OTHERS
Venkatesan P
Venkatraghavan S
Radhika Anand
Ranjani Srikanth
Madhup Tewari
Sandhya Paruchuri
Ratnakumar
Ashit Hegde
Kabir Firaque
Sohil
N. Rengaswamy
Nilesh Parmar
Ramki Krishnan
Raghavan
Jyothish Balakrishnan
Usha Ramesh
Lakshmi Prakash
Sibani and
Veera Raghavan

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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