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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 – 16th July 2023
Clue: Excellent meal softly polished off (5)
Answer: SUPER
Annotation: SUP(-p)ER
Def: Excellent
Deletion indicator: Polished off
Abbreviation(s): P – Softly

Solvers

The game was loaded by 59 unique players. 34 solvers submitted, 25 got it correct and 9 got it incorrect. 3 were anonymous.

TOP 3: Gayathri, Venkatraghavan S and Veena Venkataraman

OTHERS

Ramki Krishnan
Madhusudan
Sanjoy
Ratnakumar
Veera Raghavan
Anantha Kumar
Magi
Mona Sogal
Nilesh Parmar
Maya
Ranjani Srikanth
Sibani
Venkatesan P.
Jyothish Balakrishnan
BINAY KUMAR PATRA
D.Narayanaswamy
Sandhya
Srinath
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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