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Manama Reloaded – Results

BySowmya

Jan 26, 2022 #Contest, #Crosswords, #Cryptic, #Cryptic Crossroads, #Gulf Weekly, #Manama Reloaded, #Prizes, #Volume 3, #Winner

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Congrats to “Joanne Rodney” and “Savera Mehra” the winners of the “Manama Reloaded” crossword contest that we had done exclusively for Gulf Weekly readers.

Created along with Gulf Weekly’s Naman Arora, the crossword focussed on key achievements in Bahrain during 2021.

The contest had a great response with 115 participants attempting the crossword of which only 7 managed to get it all correct. Read more about it Gulf Weekly’s  Jan 26th – Feb 1st 2022 edition

Joanne and Savera were presented with copies of “Cryptic Crossroads Vol 3” .

You can play the crossword here if you wish to give it a go..

(Clicking on “Reveal ALL” – will show you the full solutions and Annotations.

Thanks to all of you who participated.

 

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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