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

We had 15 clues and 16 voters. One setter did not vote. Thanks to Samit Kalianpur and Ashit Hegde for taking time out to vote.

The contest was won by Satyen Nabar, who got 24 points for his mafia clue

Mafia sent criminal to kill associate? That’s obvious

In second place with 19 points is Amrita Majumdar describing some strange behaviour

Plain fellow’s strange fetish – scratching bottom!

Putting on a fine show, with 18 points is Ramki Krishnan in third place

Post about extraordinarily fine show

Textrous and @LowdownCryptic share the fourth place with 16 points apiece

Show unruly inmates grabbing felon’s head

It means to develop and take form, primarily!

Congratulations to all the winners and over to Satyen Nabar.

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

Congrats and over to Satyen 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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