I post a clue daily in Twitter (https://twitter.com/somsram), WA and 1ACross.org. Here’s the clue for today.

Solution to Cracking Cryptics – 1st July 2023
Clue: Somewhat cute ‘n’ silly gadget (7)
Answer: UTENSIL
Annotation: : Hidden in {c}UTE N SIL{LY}
Def: Gadget
Hidden word Indicator: Somewhat

Solvers

The game was loaded by 59 unique players. 36 solvers submitted and 34 got it correct, of which 4 were anonymous.

TOP 3: Sandhya, Ratna Rao and Ratnakumar

OTHERS
Mahesh
Veera Raghavan
Sohil
Prasad RV
Anjali Vaidya
Venkatraghavan S
Nilesh Parmar
Gayathri
Kabir Firaque
Srinath
Ranjani Srikanth
Rajasbi
Radhika Anand
Lakshmi Prakash
Sujatha
Anantha Kumar
Ramki Krishnan
Suyash
D Narayana Swamy
Anupama
Ashit Hegde
Madhusudan H
Maya
Tejas Siddharth
Sibani
N Rengaswamy and
Sparsh Sinha

Congrats to all those who cracked it.