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This week’s contest was hosted by Crypticblah and this is his take on it.

31 entries is excellent! Thanks to everyone who took part. A special thank you to some voters who didn’t put in a clue – Ramki Krishnan, Samit Kallianpur and Rhiannon Vivian Bolt.

There was a nice variety of clues, mostly anagrams and charades with inventive and well disguised definitions and I enjoyed reading them.

Tying in 5th place are Coot and Ramesh Swaminathan with 18 points, Ramesh gets 4th though by virtue of number of voters.

3rd goes to Manish Jhaveri with 25 points, and second place to Gayathri Viswanath scoring a tidy 33.

The clear winner by a margin of 7 points is Sowmya’s silky smooth Local travel mostly arranged before noon (6).

Congratulations everyone and over to Sowmya for next week.
SR: Thanks for the terrific hosting Rich (Crypticblah). Nice to see the good participation and some high quality clueing for a fun word.
A hearty welcome to the new players and hope to see you around in the next contests as well. Finally, thanks to all who voted – especially those who sent my 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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