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This week’s contest had 22 clues and 23 voters..

Kalyan Bandyopadhyay was our host and here’s his summary of the results.

So, after a keen contest and chase, the Californian cop got the better of several frauds. Congratulations to Suyash Roongta for winning the contest and our special thanks to Lakshmi Vaidyanathan and Ramki Krishnan for having taken the time to vote. Unfortunately, one setter did not vote.
Here’s the summary of the results:
In Fifth place is Nathan Townshend with

‘Can you chop nuts without you being caught making a racket?’

In Fourth place is Textrous with

‘Slyly pry on coach nicking Roger’s first racket (9)’

In Third place is Ganesh Raman with

‘Oh! Cop can set straight youth leader causing commotion’

In Second place is Satyen Nabar with

‘Clamour about fraud involving head of Adani company (9)’

In First place is Suyash Roongta with

‘California policeman gets love after busting drug racket (9)’

Here’s the link to the full results

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

Also Check out the Leaderboard for 2023.

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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