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This week’s contest was hosted by Larry (@lowdowncryptic) and here’s his summary of the results.

We had 23 clues and 27 voters this week. I thought a few of the “Do a stunt” anagram clues would be at the top, but we know this contest can be unpredictable!

Samit Kallianpur takes 1st place with 36 points:
Oldest and outdated housing project

Adman_i gets 2nd spot with 24 points:
Sound at concert finally fine-tuned to be striking

@qpheevr is close behind in 3rd with 23 points:
Pop made donuts with date filling

Womble and Ramki Krishnan tie for 4th with 21 points:
Project hidden cost and outgoings
Small function to implement, basically using tables in Excel

Thanks to all and congratulations, Samit!

SR: Thanks for hosting Larry.

Congrats to Samit for his Stand out clue. 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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