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


Good participation for the 500th contest. 25 clues. 26 people cast their votes.
Most clues used partial or full anagrams for wordplay.

Here are the results.

Kalyan Bandhyopadhyay and Nathan Townshend wanted to be let in – so both share 4th spot with 20 points!

Kalyan with
This landmark event is exciting – so let me in!

Nathan with
I stand by the road shivering, so let me in!

3rd place to Sowmya’s clue about a forgetful doctor – 22 points

Doctor emails note missing a critical point

2nd place to Abhay with 26 points for
Lose time wandering around new landmark

And MILES ahead is Textrous scoring 38 points for

Doctor lies to me about new breakthrough

Thanks everyone for playing. Over to Textrous!

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

Congrats and over to Textrous 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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