1ACCWC #571 – RESIGN (6) – Results

Here are the results

At 3rd place Ramki Krishnan with 24 points
At 2nd place Shobha Nayak with 25 points
And the winner is Kalyan Bandyopadhyay with 26 points

Congratulations all

Top 10

#	Name	Clue	Points	Voters	Anno	Comments
1	Kalyan Bandyopadhyay	Finally, rebels in volatile Niger stand down (6)	26	9	Definition: Stand down; S (last letter of rebelS) inserted into (in) an anagram (volatile) of NIGER
2	Shobha Nayak	Leave on cue	25	11	Def = Leave, On= RE and cue = SIGN	– Great minds think alike, so I'll have to give you points! (Nathan Townshend) – Two identical clues! Had to give same points to both. Very neat but Resign and sign come from the same root (Ramki Krishnan)
3	Ramki Krishnan	Abdicate power, accepting mistakes finally (6)	24	11	Def = abdicate, REIGN (power) around S
4	@qpheevr	Leave some fires ignited (6)	21	7	Hidden in “fiRES IGNited”; def. “leave”
5	Anne de Pimodan	Tip for Starmer's boring government? Quit! (6)	21	7	RE(S)IGN	– Very nicely done! (Abhay Phadnis)
6	Aashirwad	Abdicate one’s position and put son in command (6)	20	7	S (son) in REIGN (command); definition: abdicate one’s position
7	Manish Jhaveri	Second-in-Command to quit (6)	20	6	S (second) in REIGN (command). Def : Quit	– Old chestnut (Kalyan Bandyopadhyay)
8	Veera Raghavan	Quit serving rum after five leave (6)	15	6	Definition: Quit. (SERVING-V)*. Rum: anind
9	Textrous	Abandon plan to replace Democrat with Republican (6)	14	5	Def: Abandon; plan: Design, D replaced with R	– Nice wordplay + clean surface (Arnav V Raju)
10	Nathan Townshend	Leave on cue	13	7	Def + RE + SIGN	– Two identical clues! Had to give same points to both. Very neat but Resign and sign come from the same root (Ramki Krishnan)

Congrats to the toppers and all those who participated.

Over to Kalyan Bandyopadhyay for the next contest.