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This week’s contest was hosted by Satyen Nabar,and here’s his summary of the results.

A thrilling photo-finish! 2 clues tied in 1st place with 30 points each but the winner with higher number of votes is

Show me otters and bats (11)

Textrous

Sharing honours is

Tate Modern prepared to host sculptor’s debut exhibit (11)

@LowdownCryptic

In 3rd place is

Draper’s first “Mad Men” star to ultimately leave show (11)

@qpheevr with 22 points

In 4th place

Struggling tradesmen to protest (11)

Ramki Krishnan with 21 points

Sharing 5th place with 19 points each

Show streamed on television initially, flopped (11)

Adman_i

Sacked tradesmen to protest (11)

CrypticBlah

Thank you all for your time, clues and votes. Over to you Textrous.

SR: Thanks for hosting Satyen.

Congrats to Textrous our master of anagrams. 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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