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

A very close competition indeed but the winning clue by the competitor who remains a cut above is

Prepared topic on time for event
Textrous with 26 points

Narrowly missing out is

Match fixing tip to come in
Kalyan Bandyopadhyay with 25 points

In 3rd place is

Revolutionary citing poem to oust government in conflict
Ganesh Raman with 23 points

In 4th place is

Conflict as outrageous protectionism leads to regulatory safeguards being dropped
Abhay Phadnis with 20 points

In 5th place is

Impotent IOC corrupted the Olympics?
Nathan Townshend with 17 points.

Thank you all for your clues, votes and time. Over to you Textrous.

SR: Thanks for hosting Doc. 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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