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 – 17th July 2023
Clue: Kidnaps bachelor seen in American channels (7)
Answer: ABDUCTS
Annotation: A(B)DUCTS
Def: Kidnaps
Containment indicator: Seen in
Abbreviation(s): A – American

Solvers

The game was loaded by 58 unique players. 35 solvers submitted, 34 got it correct and 1 got it incorrect. 3 were anonymous.

TOP 3: Veena Venkataraman, Madhusudan H and Anantha Kumar

OTHERS

Harish T K
Maya
Venkatraghavan S
MJ
Anjali Vaidya
Ramki Krishnan
Suyash
Rajasbi
Mona Sogal
Ratnakumar
Madhup Tewari
Nilesh Parmar
@drcheruvarun
Prasad RV
N Rengaswamy
Radhika Anand
Louvina
Magi
Kabir Firaque
D Narayana Swamy
BINAY KUMAR PATRA
Veera Raghavan
R NAGENDRA PRASAD
Ranjani Srikanth
Sandhya
subbaraman
Venkatesan P. and
Sibani

Congrats to all those who cracked it.