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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 – 15th July 2023
Clue: Sprinkle sugar all over dessert (8)
Answer: RASGULLA
Annotation: RASGU*LLA<
Def: Dessert
Anagram Indicator: Sprinkle, Everything: ALL

Solvers

The game was loaded by 65 unique players. 38 solvers submitted and 4 got it incorrect. 3 were anonymous.

TOP 3: Rajasbi, Raghuram and Srinath

OTHERS

Ramki Krishnan
RATNAKUMAR
Gayathri
Venkatraghavan S
@jakesprime
Radhika Anand
Tejas Siddharth
Nilesh Parmar
Madhup Tewari
Anantha Kumar
Anupama
Sujatha
ranjani Srikanth
Arshad
N. Rengaswamy
Raghavan
Ingrid
Jyothish Balakrishnan
Meera
Sibani
Radhika Anand
Sparsh Sinha and
Sandhya

Although with spelling variations (that do not fully anno.), the following also solved it.

Maya
Mzv
Eswaran
Magi and
Anupama

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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