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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 – 5th July 2023
Clue: Dog biting master’s tongue (5)
Answer: TAMIL
Annotation: TA(M)IL
Def: Tongue,
Dog: Tail
Abbreviations: M = Master

Solvers

The game was loaded by 45 unique players. 27 solvers submitted and all got it correct. 1 was anonymous.

TOP 3: RATNAKUMAR, Anantha Kumar and Ratna Rao

OTHERS
Madhup Tewari
MJ
Madhusudan H
Ramki Krishnan
Gayathri
Veera Raghavan
Kabir Firaque
Mona Sogal
Venkatraghavan S
Rajasbi
Nilesh Parmar
sandhya
Sujatha
Sibani
Radhika Anand
Sparsh Sinha
Srinath
R Nagendra Prasad
Jyothish Balakrishnan
Lakshmi Prakash
Maya
D Narayana Swamy and
Subbaraman

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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