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I post a clue daily in Twitter (https://twitter.com/somsram), WA and 1ACross.org. Here’s the clue for today.

Solution to Cracking Cryptics – 1st July 2023
Clue: Somewhat cute ‘n’ silly gadget (7)
Answer: UTENSIL
Annotation: : Hidden in {c}UTE N SIL{LY}
Def: Gadget
Hidden word Indicator: Somewhat

Solvers

The game was loaded by 59 unique players. 36 solvers submitted and 34 got it correct, of which 4 were anonymous.

TOP 3: Sandhya, Ratna Rao and Ratnakumar

OTHERS
Mahesh
Veera Raghavan
Sohil
Prasad RV
Anjali Vaidya
Venkatraghavan S
Nilesh Parmar
Gayathri
Kabir Firaque
Srinath
Ranjani Srikanth
Rajasbi
Radhika Anand
Lakshmi Prakash
Sujatha
Anantha Kumar
Ramki Krishnan
Suyash
D Narayana Swamy
Anupama
Ashit Hegde
Madhusudan H
Maya
Tejas Siddharth
Sibani
N Rengaswamy and
Sparsh Sinha

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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