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We had 23 clues submitted and 27 voters.Special thanks to Mona Sogal, Ramesh Swaminathan, Ratna Rao and Samit Kallianpur for taking the time to participate in the contest by voting.

Amrita was our host and here’s her summary of the results.

In 5th place with 16 points we have Lakshmi Vaidyanathan’s

Keep consuming a lot of water, perhaps in dry and hot weather (8)

With 17 points coming in 4th is Satyen Nabar’s

Keep drinking endless water perhaps to survive this? (8)

Sharing the 3rd spot with 19 points each are Ramki Krishnan’s

Terrible, essentially savage weather, not a drop of rain (8)

and Kalyan Bandyopadhyay’s

Unusual weather abruptly brings in a very high-temperature condition (8)

Also sharing the 2nd spot with 21 points each are Veera Raghavan’s

We have a final test to be played in the hot spell (8)

and N Anantakrishnan’s

Husband and wife consuming Esctasy at topless party ? It’s happening all over Europe now (8)

And * drumroll* the winner for today’s contest, with 36 points, is Sowmya Ramkumar with her sizzling clue

Man at women’s topless party has a torrid time! (8)

Here’s the link to the full results

SR: Cannot believe my clue won..it’s been a while – The clue is now in our HALL OF FAME.

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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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