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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 – 25th July 2023
Clue: Minister botching Barbie’s European releases (5)
Answer: RABBI
Annotation: Anagram of BARBI(-e)*
Def:Minister
Anagram Indicator: Botching
Abbreviation: E – European

Solvers

The game was loaded by 45 unique players. 24 solvers submitted, 23 got it correct and 1 got it wrong. 1 was anonymous.

TOP 3: Madhusudan H, Venkatraghavan S and M(!)

OTHERS

Ratnakumar
Veera Raghavan
Madhup Tewari
Ramki Krishnan
Anjali Vaidya
Ashit Hegde
Samit
Sandhya
Kabir Firaque
Veena Venkataraman
Suyash
PRASAD RV
Magi
Mona Sogal
Ranjani Srikanth
N Rengaswamy
BINAY KUMAR PATRA
Prasad RV
D Narayana Swamy

Congrats to all those who cracked it.

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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