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We had 21 clues submitted and 28 voters.Special thanks to CrypticBlah, Mona Sogal, Ramesh Swaminathan, Ramki Krishnan, Ratna Rao, Saurabh Upadhyay and Sunju Mathew George for finding the time and participating in the contest by voting.

Satyen was our host and here’s his summary of the results.

We have a clear winner. Threading the needle perfectly is

Not a bit of crease in freshly starched clothes (7)

Amrita Majumdar with 34 points 

In 2nd place is

Directors gutted after heart-breaking storylines (7)

Textrous with 21 points

3rd place taken by 

Trashed new social media platform? (7)

Adman_i with 18 points

Sharing 4th place with 17 points 

He darts all over the place and strips (7)

Sparsh Sinha

Steps outside hotel to get story-lines (7)

Lakshmi Vaidyanathan

Finally in 5th spot sharing 15 points 

Social media app is basically spreading hatred actively (7)

N Anantakrishnan

Endless number of advertisements in the latest app (7)

Kalyan Bandyopadhyay

Thanks for the clues, votes and your time. Over to you Amrita!
Here’s the link to the full results

SR: Congrats Amrita. – Your clue is now in our HALL OF FAME.

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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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