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

We had 16 clues and 17 voters for this round. Special thanks to Phoenix and Ratna Rao for taking time out to vote. One contestant did not vote and one other voted for own clue – we look forward to better compliance to contest rules from next round.

Robin and Batman themes dominated cluing, which is won by Satyen Nabar with 21 points.

“Introduction to Batman and Robin comic strip”

Samit Kallianpur follows in joint second place with 17 points for

“Robin’s excited about Batman’s first award”

Ramki Krishnan too finishes in joint second place with 17 points with his take on

Boy Band – “Make fun of boy working in band”

In 4th place, Textrous follows closely with 16 points for

“Robin naughtily grabbed Batman’s head band”

In 5th place, N Anantakrishnan garners 14 points for

“Band – ” Boys in Black” returns”

Congratulations to all the toppers and Thanks to Sowmya for your help. Over to you, Doctor!

SR: Thanks for hosting Kalyan. Thanks to all those who participated, voted and those on the podium!

Congrats and over to Doc for the next contest. 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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