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Ramki hosted last week and here’s his summary of the results.

25 clues and 26 voters for ACADEMY
2 of the setters did not vote.
Thanks to Bhalchandra, Maya, Msriniva who did not set clues but voted.

Two-way tie for 7th place with 15 points
Abhay Phadnis goes back to ancient Greece with

Plato’s school starts to attract criticism as Dean expels Mykonian youths (7)

Ramesh Swaminathan’s take on commercialization of education?

Institute expert takes on promotion with monetary ends (7)

Three-way tie for 4th place with 17 points each

Sowmya’s reference to the current debate in the Carnatic music world

Institution made a controversy extremely complicated (7)

Textrous with

Ragged co-ed may lose love for a college (7)

Kalyan on the state of neglect on extra-curricular activities in schools

School clubs made to rot in extremes of apathy (7)

3rd place with 19 points goes to Suyash with

Genius bagging a reward ultimately at my school (7)

2nd place with 24 points to Ganesh Raman

Roguish cadet may give the slip to team leader at training establishment

And the winner by a handsome margin with 31 points, Samit Kallianpur’s nostalgic clue

Came a day, sadly, when one had to leave school (7)

Thanks everyone for playing, and over to you Samit!

SR: Congrats Samit. Your clue is now in our HALL OF FAME. Thanks for hosting with an interesting and topical word Ramki.

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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