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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 – 2nd July 2023
Clue: NASA vague about Armstrong’s first position (5)
Answer: ASANA
Annotation: : A inserted in Anagram of NASA*
Def: Position
Anagram Indicator: Vague

Solvers

The game was loaded by 53 unique players. 40 solvers submitted and 39 got it correct, of which 6 were anonymous.

TOP 3: Ratna Rao, Kabir Firaque and Sujatha N

OTHERS
Madhusudan H
@drcheruvarun
Ratnakumar
Anjali Vaidya
Veera Raghavan
VENKATESAN P.
Gayathri
Veena Venkataraman
Sparsh Sinha
Ramki Krishnan
Rajasbi
Radhika Anand
Ashit Hegde
Srinath
Svs
Eswaran
Venkatraghavan S
Nilesh Parmar
Madhup Tewari
Sohil
Sibani
Kamalesh
Ranjani Srikanth
Anupama
Maya
Santha
Tejas Siddharth
Sandhya
Subbaraman and
BINAY KUMAR PATRA

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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