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

This contest saw participation from 23 cluers and 27 voters.

On to the results.

At 5th position is Hari Mannarsamy, with 19 points from 14 voters, for “Get care! It could be a Health hazard!”

At 4th position, with 20 points from 15 voters, we have Abhay Phadnis, for “Fag end of big title race disrupted after student drops out”

At 3rd position, with 21 points from 15 voters, appears N Anantakrishnan, for “Caught wild tiger at edge of jungle – it can be dangerous”

At 2nd position is Satyen Nabar, with 26 points from 17 voters, for “Get article about giving up ultimately harmful product causing cancer”

And the winner, with 32 points from 18 voters, is Manish Jhaveri, for “Criminal I target in church is one among a pack of killers”

Honourable mentions to Veera Raghavan, Ganesh Raman, Adman_i, Sitter, Kalyan, @qpheevr and @LowdownCryptic for featuring among the top 10.

Congratulations Manish! Over to you for the next context.

SR: Thanks for hosting Textrous. Congrats to Manish. 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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