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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 – 26th July 2023
Clue: Holding daughter, she’d run to work in lots (8)
Answer: HUNDREDS
Annotation: D inserted in Anagram of SHEDRUN*
Def:Lots
Anagram Indicator: To work
Abbreviation: D – Daughter

Solvers

The game was loaded by 56 unique players. 28 solvers submitted and all got it correct. 2 were anonymous.

TOP 3: Ramki Krishnan, Ratnakumar and Veera Raghavan

OTHERS

Samit
BINAY KUMAR PATRA
Venkatraghavan S
Mona Sogal
MJ
Madhusudan H
Veena Venkataraman
Tejas Siddharth
Anjali Vaidya
Manish Misra
M
Magi
D Narayana Swamy
Radhika Anand
Mahesh
Ranjani Srikanth
Lakshmi Prakash
Kabir Firaque
Sandhya
Jyothish Balakrishnan
Sparsh Sinha
Prasad RV and
Gayathri

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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