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

This contest witnessed 26 cluers and 25 voters. It’s heartening to see such participation and I hope we keep the momentum going!

On to the results.

At 5th position there is a three way tie between  Manish Jhaveri, with 14 points (and 2 votes more than the others with the same score) for “Cast enacted absorbing love story”

‘Samit Kallianpur with “Short story enacted out, wins Oscar (8) and

Satyen Nabar with “Cast enacted love story (8)

At 4th position, with 15 points, we have Kalyan Bandyopadhyay for “An extremely erotic, lavish love story”

At 2nd position there is a two-way time between Ganesh Raman, with 18 points (and 2 votes more than @LowdownCryptic) for “Story or play enacted about love” and

@LowdownCryptic for “Worker gets hold of encrypted code with electronic account”

The role of the winner is enacted by Sowmya Ramkumar, with 20 points for the best of the “enacted” clues, “Cast enacted absorbing love story”

Honourable mentions to Gayathri Viswanath, Sparsh Sinha and Ramki Krishnan for figuring among the top 10.

Sowmya will take it over for the next context.

SR: Thanks for hosting Textrous. 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.

I’m winning a contest after a long time – so this special – Thanks to all which voted and sent this clue to 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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