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Ganesh hosted this week and here’s his summary of the results…

This week’s contest saw excellent participation with 44 entries. Here are the top entries….

Four clues shared the 3rdth position with 22 points, two of which were quite similar, just separated by an exclamation mark!…Ananth Srinivasan’s ‘Me? I can do funny!’ and CrypticBlah for ‘Me? I can do funny’. The other two are @qpheevr with ‘Style icon Dame Edna Everage, for one’ and Lily Geller’s ‘I come and joke around’.

In 2nd position, N Anantakrishnan scored 25 points for ‘Love stricken maiden following Charlie Chaplin perhaps’

The winner of this week’s contest is Suyash Roongta with 29 points for ‘Chris Rock perhaps made icon mad’.

Hearty congratulations Suyash and over to you for the next clue.

Congrats Suyash – Your clue is now in our HALL OF FAME. Thanks to Ganesh for a word that sparked a lot of imagination.

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

ANNOUNCEMENT – PLEASE NOTE THAT I WILL BE ON VACATION TILL THE END OF AUGUST. 1ACCWC will resume on 4th September

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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