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

We finished this week’s contest with 21 clues and 25 voters. Honorable mentions to @LowdownCryptic, Adman_i, Sowmya Ramkumar and N Anantakrishnan for featuring among the top 10.

Now, on to the top 5 this week:

In 5th place, we have a tie with 18 points each between Kalyan Bandyopadhyay’s “Crete is old, amazing and mysterious”

and Ganesh Raman’s “Scooter that is in motion, has a wheel missing? Hard to explain”

In 4th place is Ramki Krishnan, scoring 20 points for “Abstruse, secret logic, often flawed”

Sparsh Sinha takes 3rd place with 22 points for “Crushed toe; cries in private”

In 2nd place stands Samit Kallianpur, with 29 points for “Discovered best hotel – pricy and private”

On top, by a comfortable margin, we have Satyen Nabar, with 37 points for “Most see erotic reels in private”

Congratulations Satyen and over to you for the next one!

SR: Thanks for the diligent hosting Textrous. Good participation and some great clues. Congrats Satyen. Once again, 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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