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Over the last year, we had 52 weekly contests and 18 different setters winning the weekly contests, 8 less than the 26 in 2019. There were three occasions when there were ties for the Top Spot.

For the third consecutive year, Satyen Nabar topped the leaderboard winning 10 contests, bringing his total wins in 1ACCWCs to a whopping 32. In second place is Manish Jhaveri with 8 wins and Ramki with 7 wins this year. Ramki continues to hold the maximum number of 1ACCWC wins at 32, jointly with Dr Nabar.
Here is the Leaderboard for the year..

Setter # wins
Satyen Nabar 10
Manish Jhaveri 8
Ramki Krishnan 7
Anantakrishnan Narayanan 4
SSv Avtaar 4
Ganesh Nayak 3
Ajeesh V M 3
HMS Cryptic 3
Amrita Majumdar 2
Gaurav Johri 2
Andrew Thangaraj 2
Krishnan Anantheswaran 1
Thejaswi Udupa 1
Bhalchandra Pasupathy 1
Vinit Wankhede 1
Ramesh Swaminathan 1
Samit Kallianpur 1
Camelia Oberoi 1

Congrats Doc – you make it seem easy:)

Here is the list of the terrific clues that won during the year.. I thoroughly enjoyed going through them again..

Comment and let us know which ones were your favorites..

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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