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We had 25 clues submitted and 32 voters. Special mention and thanks to Ashit Hegde, Manish Jhaveri, Max Jackson, R. Nagendra Prasad, Samit Kallianpur, Sree Sree and Viraj Divecha. who took time to vote in the contest even though they had not posted clues.

Satyen Nabar was our host and here’s his summary of the results.

A thrilling 3-horse race that went down to the wire. Each of the 3 clues was leading the pack at some point but in a photo-finish, the Sceptre was finally picked up by 

Royal staff’s lurid secret about prince (7)

Textrous with 36 points, a solitary point ahead… 

In 2nd place is

Respect ground staff (7)

Veena Venkataraman with 35 points

3rd place goes to

Secret mobile to ring President’s staff (7)

Sowmya Ramkumar with 32 points 

In 4th spot is

Ceremonial staff activated secret entrance to portal (7)

Sparsh Sinha with 26 points 

Sharing 5th position with 21 points apiece 

Lost respect for royal staff (7)

Raj jayaram 

“‘Sengol’ ceremoniously entering Parliament today. Ridiculously extravagant” – Leaders giving stick (7)

Ramki Krishnan

Thank you all for clues, votes and your time. Over to you Vinod. 

Here’s the link to the full results

SR: Congrats Textroue. – Your clue is now in our HALL OF FAME. Also Check out the Leaderboard for 2023.

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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