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Sparsh Sinha hosted this week and here’s his summary of the results..

In Eighth place is @qpheevr with ‘Several in Bavaria blew hot and cold (8)’
In Seventh place is Suyash Roongta with ‘Unstable and evil Arab running amok (8)’
In Sixth place is Ganesh Raman with ‘Shifting a live bar is difficult’
In Fifth place is Kalyan Bandyopadhyay with ‘Very foul air – strong and shifting direction (8)’
In Fourth place is Tejas Siddharth with ‘It is possible to have a leader of Russia changing with time (8)’
In Third place is N Anantakrishnan with ‘x = 5, g = 1 in Algebra problem’
In Second place is Satyen Nabar with ‘Finishing off bottle finally, I leave bar, tottering and unsteady (8)’
In First place is Myra Shah with ‘Unsettle a rival? Be unpredictable! (8)’

Congrats Myra. Your clue is now in our HALL OF FAME. Over to you for the next contest.


Here’s the link to the full results and you can see how you have been faring this year from our cumulative Leaderboard.

Note: 1 particpant who had set a clue did not vote, which is against the spirit of the game. In future, I request participants who may not be familiar with our rules to take note and adhere to them..

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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