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Solution to Cracking Cryptics – 19th June 2023
Clue: Harry Potter initially cast “Hocus Pocus”, conjuring food (8)
Answer: COUS COUS
Annotation: :{HOCUS POCUS- HP}*
Def: Food
Indicators: Cast – Deletion Indicator, Conjuring – Anagram Indicator
Solvers
24 solvers submitted, of which only 19 solvers got it correct.

TOP 3 Anupama, Gayathri and Eswaran
OTHERS
RATNAKUMAR
Anjali Vaidya
Srinath
Sibani
Ramki Krishnan
Sparsh Sinha
Arshad Nadamal
Sandhya PAruchuri
Jyothish Balakrishnan
Venkatraghavan S
Harish TK
Ratna Rao
Meera
Amarnath
Mahesh and
Madhup Tewari

Congrats to all those who cracked it.