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This week’s contest had 27 clues and 29 voters. Special thanks to Ratna Rao and Sparsh Sinha for taking the time to participate in the contest by voting.

Satyen Nabar was our host and here’s his summary of the results.

In a fiercely contested league of extraordinary ladies and gentlemen, winning the Gold is 

Extremely lithe and fit for competition

Ramki Krishnan securing 29 points 

Silver won by  

Leaders of Portugal and Russia leave Czech capital after the French Conference

Venkatesan P getting 25 points  

Bronze picked up by 

Startle a guest wielding club

Veena Venkataraman with 22 points 

Sharing 4th spot are 3 clues with 20 points each 

Hiding in jungle, a guerrilla group

Samit Kallianpur

The French debate extraditing premier of Russian Federation

@LowdownCryptic

Every other clue’s fit for contest

Sowmya Ramkumar

Finally in 5th place is 

A gang of people burgle a guest house

Textrous with 19 points

Thank you for the clues, votes and your time. Over to you Ramki! 
Here’s the link to the full results

SR: Congrats Ramki. Your 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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