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

Thanks all – a bumper(ish) crop of 24 this week! I wanted to give you a word which could be broken down into parts or anagrammed easily, and you didn’t disappoint!

In 5th place is Sowmya Ramkumar with ‘Love tikka, ultimately with tandoori masala (9)’ with 15 points from 10 voters
4th is Ramki Krishnan with ‘Love a party with food (9)’ - (17, 11)
3rd place was Abhay Phadnis’ ‘A devotee’s first speech shows reverence (9) - (20, 13)
2nd place goes to what was my favourite, Amrita Majumdar’s ’Love adult party supplies! (9) - (26, 16)

The runaway winner, however, with a mighty 44 points from 21 voters, is Textrous’ ’Love to do a rain dance (9)’

Nice one Textrous – over to you!

SR: Thanks for hosting Sitter. Thanks to all those who participated, voted and those on the podium! 1 participant did not vote. Request all participants to observe the rules of the contest for the sake of fairness to all concerned.

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 2025.

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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