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

We had 27 clues and 27 voters (all setters voted!)

It was a relatively low-scoring but tightly fought contest.
Most common wordplays were BUDGE + T

Over to the results:

In 4-way tie with score of 16 are:
Sitter’s commentary on UK politics
Plan to dislodge tory leader (6)

Gayathri on Government’s financial woes
Head of Union Government caught in debt, arranged funds (6)

Textrous with a deceptive surface pointing to software development challenges
Debug glitches before the end of test plan (6)

Adman_i again on the tax policy
Finance Ministry plans move to have no cuts in taxes (6)

2-way tie with score of 17
Nice acrostic from qpheevr
By unanimous decision, government endorsed their leaders’ spending plan (6)
Anantakrishnan’s pragmatic advice to spend within your means
Shift to basically what you can afford (6)

And the winner with 20 points is CrypticBlah with a deletion clue:
Cheap bigmouthed drunk? Not IMHO (6)

Thanks everyone for playing. Over to CrypticBlah for the next contest.

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

Congrats to Crypticblah on your first 1ACCWC win. Over to you 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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