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

Keeping his cool effortlessly, the winner of ‘Go bananas’ is

Get upset with travel restrictions limiting all new arrivals basically

N Anantakrishnan with 31 points

In 2nd place is

Some in Chicago ban a nasty freak

Stuart McStuart with 26 points. A note to Stuart McStuart who had awarded his own clue 4 points. Those self-awarded 4 points have been deleted and as per the rules, you have been docked 4 points in addition. It has been brought to my notice that you have done this many times in the past as well. Kindly refrain from doing so in the future.

3rd place with 25 points each is shared by

Get very angry as Goa bans any bottomless swimming

Abhay Phadnis

Freak out on bags designed to smuggle articles

Textrous

Finally we have

See red and yellow fruits after green light

Thejaswi Udupa with 22 points

Thank you all for your time, clues and your votes. Over to you Anant.

SR: Congrats Anant. Your clue is now in our HALL OF FAME. Thanks for the diligent hosting and the fun phrase Satyen.

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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