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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 – 17th July 2023
Clue: Kidnaps bachelor seen in American channels (7)
Answer: ABDUCTS
Annotation: A(B)DUCTS
Def: Kidnaps
Containment indicator: Seen in
Abbreviation(s): A – American

Solvers

The game was loaded by 58 unique players. 35 solvers submitted, 34 got it correct and 1 got it incorrect. 3 were anonymous.

TOP 3: Veena Venkataraman, Madhusudan H and Anantha Kumar

OTHERS

Harish T K
Maya
Venkatraghavan S
MJ
Anjali Vaidya
Ramki Krishnan
Suyash
Rajasbi
Mona Sogal
Ratnakumar
Madhup Tewari
Nilesh Parmar
@drcheruvarun
Prasad RV
N Rengaswamy
Radhika Anand
Louvina
Magi
Kabir Firaque
D Narayana Swamy
BINAY KUMAR PATRA
Veera Raghavan
R NAGENDRA PRASAD
Ranjani Srikanth
Sandhya
subbaraman
Venkatesan P. and
Sibani

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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