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We had a superb response to yesterday’s clue and 28 people managed to register their right answers in the blog, though it’s still  lower than our recent record of 38.

Congrats to Raja Venkatasubramanian (our first one in), Venkatraghavan S., Crypt Ella, Arvind Ramaswamy, Samit Kallianpur, Raju Umamaheswar, Arun Kumar, Shrikanth T, Prakash Arumugam, Camelia Oberoi, John Chute, Srividya Thyagarajan, Koteswara Rao, Mukundala Balasubramanyam, Max Jackson, Sandhya Paruchuri, Rengaswamy N, Raghavan S V, Ranjani Srikanth, Tulika Das, Radhika Anand, Vinayak, Mohan Subramaniam, Lata Muthanna, Abraham Mathew, Usha Mehta , Jawahar and Padmanabhan

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The Clue was “Idol ran out fifth, possibly (7)”. The Answer was “ORDINAL”. This is an “Anagram” clue. The anagrind is “OUT” and it indicates that “IDOL RAN” needs to be jumbled. The annotation is  {IDOLRAN}* . The definition is  “Fifth, possibly”. Once again, well done to each of you who not only solved it but also annotated it correctly in our blog post. Now, Can you solve THIS clue?

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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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