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We had 25 clues submitted and 32 voters. Special mention and thanks to CrypticBlah, Gayathri Viswanath, Lakshmi Vaidyanathan, Loks Subrahmanyam, Madhup Tewari, Melissa McSeismal, R NAGENDRA PRASAD and Samit Kallianpur who took time to vote in the contest even though they had not posted clues.

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

Over 10 contestants plunged deep in…a very close contest indeed but finally the one who dived deepest is

Wasn’t it a navigation component responsible for this submersible mishap? (5)

Kalyan Bandyopadhyay with 23 points

In 2nd place is

Big doctor in that hospital is leaving (5)

Veera Raghavan with 22 points

3rd place goes to

It’s lost inside Atlantic, without any hint of life (5)

Saurabh Upadhyay with 20 points

4th spot is shared by three clues with 19 points each

Moon? It turned brown!

Thejaswi Udupa

Ultimately hot sex with a leading nudist showing heavenly body (5)

Raj Jayaram

Submarine basically imploded catastrophically, away from large sunken ship (5)

N Anantakrishnan

And finally, in 5th spot is

Fragment of anti-tank submarine that sank (5)

Avtaar with 18 points

Thank you all for your clues and votes. Over to you Kalyan!  Here’s the link to the full results

NOTE:The Clue that appears in #23 should have been at #15. Since the participant had used a different name, it was not correctly picked up and points had been inadvertently deducted before declaring results. We will try to restore it and although it does not impact the Top 10 or the overall leader board, the error is regretted.

SR: Congrats Kalyan. – 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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