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Solution to Cracking Cryptics – 8th July 2023
Clue: Scandinavian carelessly tossed out exquisite Indian fabric (6)
Answer: CANVAS
Annotation: SCANDINAVIAM* – INDIAN*
Def: Fabric
Anagram Indicator(s): Carelessly, Exquisite
Deletion Indicator: Tossed out

Solvers

The game was loaded by 51 unique players. 25 solvers submitted and 22 got it correct. 1 was anonymous.

TOP 3: Veera Raghavan, Mahesh and Ratnakumar

OTHERS

Harish TK
Anantha Kumar
Madhup Tewari
Anupama
Sanjoy
Jyotish Balakrishnan
Ranjani Srikanth
Janu Natarajan
Sandhya
Maya
R Nagendra Prasad
Anjali Vaidya
Nilesh Parmar
D.Narayanaswamy
Sparsh Sinha
Venkatraghavan S
Ramki Krishnan
Radhika Anand

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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