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We had 19 clues submitted and 24 voters. 1 participant did not vote. Special thanks to Arjun Mukerjee, Ashit Hegde, Manish Jhaveri, Anantakrishnan, Ramki Krishnan and Ratna Rao for taking the time to participate in the contest by voting.

Satyen Nabar was our host and here’s his summary of the results.

At the end of an interesting journey, several made a safe landing with a few clues leading the way comfortably. 

A clear winner with 38 points…

A dash of lemon with gin ordered at the end of a flight

Ganesh Raman 

Close by with 32 points is 

Winning’s delightful… and in general, inspiring!

Samit Kallianpur

Picking up 3rd place with 25 points is 

Arrival of student with fashionable girl

Adman_i 

In 4th spot with 21 points is

Outsiders not allowed at Lord Emsworth’s castle entrance 

Amrita Majumdar

Finally, in 5th place with 19 points is 

Marina with fish around

Maya Sharma

Thank you all for your time, clues and votes. Over to you Ganesh!

Here’s the link to the full results

SR: Congrats Ganesh. Your clue is now in our HALL OF FAME.

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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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