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20 clues were submitted and 24 people voted in this week’s contest. Special thanks to Ashit Hegde, Madhup Tewari, Mona Sogal and Ratna Rao for taking the time to participate in the contest by voting.

Here’s the summary of the results.

In 5th place with 16 points we have Adman_i’s

Noted theoretical physicist to mope and repine about H-bombs (11)

With 20 points each, there is a tie for the 4th position between Saurabh Upadhyay’s

Scientist takes morphine as and when needed (11)

and N.Anantakrishnan’s

Scientist prepared extremely pure morphine – source of euphoria (11)

With 23 points, at the third position is Ramki Krishnan’s

Scientist with protective gear, enters home in complex with hesitation (11)

Taking the 2nd spot with a whopping 34 points is Sree Sree’s

Bad men hire pope to be father of a Little Boy!

However, bagging 37 points and walking away with the gold is the brilliant &Lit from Dr. Satyen Nabar

Pioneer, he worked with initiators of Manhattan Project (11)

Here’s the link to the full results

SR: Congrats Doc – The clue is now in our HALL OF FAME.

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NOTE: Please note that the next 1ACCWC, to be hosted by Dr. Nabar will be run on Sunday 3rd September 2023, since I will be taking a break from blogging in August. See you after the break.

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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