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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 – 4th July 2023
Clue: Huge group of soldiers led by American soldier (6)
Answer: GIANTS
Annotation: GI + ANTS (Soldiers)
Def: Huge group
Abbreviations: American Soldier = GI

Solvers

The game was loaded by 61 unique players. 26 solvers submitted and 22 got it correct.

TOP 3: Ramki Krishnan, Gayathri and N Anantakrishnan

OTHERS
Ratnakumar
Mahesh
Anantha Kumar
Venkatraghavan S
Nilesh Parmar
Rajasbi
Kabir Firaque
Srinath
Sibani
Loks Subrahmanyam
Sandhya
Sujatha
Jyothish Balakrishnan
Ranjani Srikanth
Madhup Tewari
D Narayana Swamy
Maya
R Nagendra Prasad and
Tejas Siddharth

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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