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

And the winner is… N Anantakrishnan! With his insightful commentary on road conditions, N Anantakrishnan has taken the top spot in our cryptic clue contest.

Second place goes to @LowdownCryptic and his clue on quirks of pets.

We have a three-way tie for third place between Ganesh Raman, Ramesh Swaminathan, and Adman_i

A big thank you to Ashit Hegde, Gayatri Vishwanath, SriK, and Melissa McSiesmal for taking the time to vote. We appreciate your efforts.

And a friendly reminder to our missing setter: We hope this was just a momentary lapse.

Congratulations to all participants! Let’s give a round of applause to our winner, N Anantakrishnan, and look forward to his hosting the next cryptic clue contest!

SR: Kalyan – Thanks for the diligent hosting and managing to wake up the sleeping cruciverbalists with a soft footed challenge. Congrats Anant! 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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