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This week’s contest was hosted by Saurabh Upadhyay and here’s his summary of the results.


Some excellent clues this week. Thanks to all the setters and voters, all the setters also voted. Only 4 votes divided 5th through 2nd place.

Honourable mention to Suyash Roongta, Mona Sogal, Ramki Krishnan, Venkatesan P and @ahope1.bsky.social for taking 6th through 10 spots.

Manish Jhaveri takes 5th position with characteristically smooth surface “Leaders of Far Right movement create division”

Aaron Riccio (@thatcrypticguy) takes 4th place with well crafted “Unpopular crime like 9/11?”

3rd place goes to CrypticBlah with the topical surface “Party split by resistance to proportional representation?”

2nd place goes to Samit Kallianpur with a smooth substitution: “I avoided conflict for a bit”

And the top place goes Satyen Nabar with the very fine clue: “Fine actor in unconventional part”, sweeping the competition with 36 votes. Over to you Doc!

SR: Thanks for hosting Saurabh. Had a tough time shortlisting from these fabulous clues. A warm welcome to first time participants and hope to see you around in the next contests as well.

Congrats to Satyen. His clue will be featured 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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