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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 – 21st July 2023
Clue: Doctor, mayor and general returning to fish (5,3)
Answer: MORAY EEL
Annotation: MAYOR* EEL<<
Def: Fish
Anagram indicator: Doctor
General: Lee
Reversal indicator: Returning

Solvers

The game was loaded by 51 unique players. 29 solvers submitted, 23 got it correct and 6 got it incorrect.

TOP 3: Ratnakumar, Priya shyam and Eswaran

OTHERS

Ashit Hegde
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Veena Venkataraman
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Anupama
Manish Misra
Magi
Madhup Tewari
Sandhya
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Jyothish Balakrishnan
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R NAGENDRA PRASAD
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Veera Raghavan
BINAY KUMAR PATRA
D Narayana Swamy
Venkatesan P. and
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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