This week’s contest had 29 clues and 34 voters. Special thanks to Lakshmi Vaidyanathan, Madhup Tewari, Ratna Rao, Sanjay Fuloria and Sree Sree for taking the time to participate in the contest by voting.

Ramki Krishnan was our host and here’s his summary of the results.
ORDER! ORDER! (Looks like this was the favourite definition word this week😊)

Time to announce the results of the cluing contest for MEDAL. We had 34 people voting for 29 clues – and the podium is crowded with several ties!

Tied at 5th place with 18 points each

1. Award for Mandela’s amazing article stood out

• Ramesh Swaminathan

2) Laurel? Comedic half, essentially

• Adman_i (I really liked this &litish clue and thought it would get more votes!)

4th place with 19 points goes to a very hungry

Order lunch boxes – close to famished

• Satyen Nabar

3-way tie for 3rd place, with 20 points each between

1) Lemonade leaves one infected with plaque

• Ganesh Raman (This should have been Samit the dentist’s clue lol)

2) Meal Daughter cooked as reward

• Vikram Chandrashekar

3) Claimed a lead to carry this?

• Nathan Townshend (nice &lit telescopic)

2nd place with 23 points goes to

Partially redeemed a lucky prize

• Textrous

Tied at the 1st place with 27 points each

1) Order lunch perhaps, including a bit of dessert

• Samit Kalyanpur

2) Order upended in Israel, a democracy

• Saurabh Upadhyay’s topical clue

I decided to exercise my casting vote to break the tie for the 1st place and am voting for Saurabh as the winner!

Thanks everyone for playing and over to Saurabh for the next contest.
Here’s the link to the full results

SR: Congrats Saurabh. Your clue is now in our HALL OF FAME.

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