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1ACCWC 440 – HEATWAVE – OPEN for CLUES

BySowmya

Jul 16, 2023 #1ACCWC, #440, #Amrita Majumdar, #Clue writing contests, #Heatwave

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This week’s 1ACCWC is being hosted by Amrita Majumdar who won 1ACCWC 439 – THREADS chalking her 2nd win in the 24 contests she has participated in and ranking eleventh in this season’s Leaderboard. She has chosen HEATWAVE for 1ACCWC 440

Here are the rules

    1. Limit of 1 clue per setter. Please Annotate your clues clearly.
    2. Please use your known names / Twitter handles and use it consistently while voting, cluing and across contests. This will help us maintain our leader boards without intervention. Clues from contestants whose names are not recognised from FB/Twitter will be disallowed.
    3. Contest closes at 10AM IST, Friday 21st July 2023 after which VOTING will be open.
    4. All participants who set clues are expected to vote as well. So please check when the Voting opens and/or  bookmark the links
    5. Voting will close at 10AM IST, Sunday 23rd of July, 2023 after which Results will be announced.

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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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