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This week’s contest had 26 clues and 27 voters. This week as well, 1 participant missed voting and 1 participant gave points for themself both of which are against the rules of the contest..

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

We had a good showing this week, with a total of 26 clues contributed, and particularly close competition for places 2-5.

Tied for fifth place, with 19 points each, are
Sowmya Ramkumar, with the welcoming clue

Wave and greet us animatedly (7)

and Amrita Majumdar, with the more ominous

Unhinged guest discharged rifle at demonstration (7)

In fourth place, with 20 points, is
Saurabh Upadhyay, with

Company certain to introduce model in exhibition (7)

At third, with 21 points, we have
Ramki Krishnan’s environmental initiative

Action from government to restore trees around University (7)

In second place, with 22 points, is
Sparsh Sinha, with

Signal engineer gets queried regularly (7)

And our winner this week, by a comfortable margin (if sounding a little queasy), is Satyen Nabar, who earned 31 points with

Starts to eat uncooked rice, gets loose motion (7)

Thanks to everyone who contributed clues, voted, and commented, and especially to Sowmya for organizing and promoting the contest! And congratulations to this week’s winner and next week’s host, Satyen Nabar!

Here’s the link to the full results

SR: Thanks Qpheevr and Congrats Satyen. 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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