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

Honorable mentions to Satyen Nabar, @LowdownCryptic, Avtaar, Ganesh Raman and Gayathri for featuring among the top 10.

In 5th place, we have Abhay Phadnis with 19 points for “Spot lake in semi-frozen state?”

In 4th place is Venkatesan P, with 23 points for “Small piece of titanium found in suspicious parcel”

In 3rd place, with 27 points, is Nathan Townsend for “Peter’s foremost item – the Higgs boson?

In 2nd place, with 28 points, we have Madhusudan H for “Wild rice plant yielded new grain”

Drumrolls! The winner, with 31 points, is N Anantakrishnan, for “Beginning to panic? Maybe a bit”

Congrats Anantakrishnan! Take it away for the next contest.

SR: Congrats Anantakrishnan. Your clue is now in our HALL OF FAME. Thanks for hosting 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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