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Last week’s host was Textrous and here’s his summary of the results.

Honorable mentions to Amrita, Abhay Phadnis, Sparsh Sinha, Ganesh Raman & Adman_i for featuring among the top 10.

In 5th place is Nathan Townsend, with 19 points for

Church regularly adopts dodgy deals; one of these won’t get you far

In 3rd place, tied with 20 points, are Satyen Nabar for

Case could deteriorate without oxygen, resulting in inescapable situation

and Ramki Krishnan, with 20 points for

Accused criminal without bail, finally – it’s the end of the road

In 2nd place, we have Veera Raghavan, with 25 points for

Accused, running, kidnaps student in blind alley

And finally, the winner, with a whopping 36 points, is Suyash Roongta, for

Panicking, accused takes left into blind alley

Congrats Suyash! All yours for the next contest.

SR: Congrats Suyash. Your clue is now in our HALL OF FAME. Thanks for hosting and the interesting challenge Textrous.

Here’s the link to the full results

Also Check out the Leader board for 2024.

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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