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 – 23rd July 2023
Clue: Illusion in Ramayana (4)
Answer: MAYA
Annotation: Hidden in {ra}MAYA{na}
Def:Illusion
Hidden word indicator: In

Solvers

The game was loaded by 46 unique players. 37 solvers submitted and all got it correct. 5 were anonymous.

TOP 3: Bert Harms, Anantha Kumar and Ashit Hegde

OTHERS

Ram
Ravi
Rajasbi
Mahesh
Magi
Radhika Anand
Srinath
Kabir Firaque
Venkatraghavan S
Ratnakumar
Ashwin Bhandarkar
Maya
Arshad
Veera Raghavan
Ranjani Srikanth
N Rengaswamy
BINAY KUMAR PATRA
Madhup Tewari
Anjali Vaidya
Ramki Krishnan
Nitin Deshpande
Sparsh Sinha
Sibani
Prasad RV
Sandhya
@usharameshnj
Achu
Prasad RV and
D Narayana Swamy

Congrats to all those who cracked it.