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This week’s contest had 21 clues and 28 voters. 1 participant did not vote. Special thanks to @qpheevr, Anjali Vaidya, Arjun Mukerjee, Gayathri Viswanath, Heidi Schroeder, Ramesh Swaminathan, Samit Kallianpur, Ratna Rao for taking the time to participate in the contest by voting.

Ganesh Raman was our host and here’s his summary of the results.

We had a total of 21 clues and 28 voters this week. The results are as follows:

In 4th place, we have 3 contestants tied at 18 points: N Anantakrishnan with

“Court finally to debate sedition”

Raj Jayaram with

“Sore at nationalist leader’s manoeuvring and betrayal”

and Maya Sharma with

“Time to consider rebellion”

In 3rd place, Michael Harms scored 22 points for

“True cause for betrayal”

In 2nd place, we have Satyen Nabar with 23 points for

“Argument after first sign of teenage rebellion”

And the winner this week is Suyash Roongta with 25 points for

“Heartache, essentially, about a child’s betrayal”

Congrats Suyash and over to you for the next one.

Here’s the link to the full results

SR: Congrats Suyash. 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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