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

We had 28 clues and 31 voters although 3 contestants did not vote.

An absolutely riveting neck-to-neck contest with 5 clues vying for pole position. This is as close as it gets!

Winning the contest is the telescopic clue

Team on key bus in Essex caught clowning around

Manish Jhaveri securing 30 points 

Tied in 2nd place on 29 points are the Musk clues. 

Improper behavior by Musk is seen on broadcast

Diogeneb

Crazy Musk’s been noisy making dodgy deals

Dave Williams 

Next up is yet another Musk clue. 

Musk’s been noisy, out of line and fooling around 

@LowdownCryptic securing 28 points 

Finally, we have 

Bank issues money not initially authorized, perhaps pointing to hanky-panky

Veera Raghavan getting 26 points 

Thank you all and over to you Manish! 

Congrats Manish – Your clue is now in our HALL OF FAME.

Thanks Doc for hosting this fun challenge.

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

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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