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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 – 19th July 2023
Clue: Poor Anarkali initially separated from her lover (4)
Answer: SLIM
Annotation: S(-a)LIM
Def: Poor
Deletion indicator: Separated
Letter selection indicator: Initially,

Solvers

The game was loaded by 57 unique players. 37 solvers submitted, 33 got it correct and 4 got it incorrect. 2 were anonymous.

TOP 3: Gayathri, Raja and Veena Venkataraman

OTHERS

Donbratman
Ratnakumar
@drcheruvarun
Manish Misra
Sandhya
Radhika Anand
Venkatraghavan S
Prasad RV
Anjali Vaidya
Nilesh Parmar
ashit Hegde
Sujatha
Srinath
Ranjani Srikanth
Prashant
Sibani
Maya
N Anantakrishnan
D Narayana Swamy
Ramki Krishnan
Kabir Firaque
Madhup Tewari
BINAY KUMAR PATRA
Veera Raghavan
Samit kallianpur
Venkatesan P.
Sparsh Sinha and
Mahesh

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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