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

Honorable mentions to N Anantakrishnan, Nathan Townsend, Thejaswi Udupa, Kalyan Bandyopadhyay and Sowmya Ramkumar for featuring among the top 10.

In 5th place, we have Adman_i with 14 points for “Strip occasionally in an orgy, drunk…turning round and round”

In 4th place is Suyash Roongta, with 21 points for “Kinky orgy with endless mating and wild dancing”

In 2nd place, with 23 points we have a tie between Satyen Nabar for “Turn blue into gray”

and Abhay Phadnis for “Corrupt signatory decapitated in revolution”, who also scored 23 points but with 2 more voters than Satyen.

And finally, the winner, with a whopping 33 points, is Ramki Krishnan, for the cricket-themed “Ashwin’s opening… trying desperately to grip ball for spin”

Congrats Ramki! Over to you for the next contest.

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

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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