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This week’s contest had 18 clues and 19 voters.

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

Honorable mention to Suyash Roongta, Sparsh Sinha, Amrita Majumdar, N Anantakrishnan & Nathan Townsend for featuring among the top 10.

In Joint fourth place is Sowmya Ramkumar, with 15 points for the impressive &Lit

Scary thing to spoil sleep, essentially!

And @LowdownCryptic, with 15 points for the creative

Right name, wrong trial

In 3rd place is Ramki Krishnan, with 16 points for an &Lit very similar to Sowmya’s,

Terrible thing to spoil sleep, essentially

In 1st place we again have a tie with Satyen Nabar, with 22 points for the topical

Hearts captured by poor emigrant’s ordeal

And also with 22 points is @qpheevr, for the simple but clever

Arming the rebels for a worst-case scenario

Since @qpheevr has more voters, he has the honor of hosting the next game Take it away for the next contest.

Here’s the link to the full results

SR: Thanks Textrous and Congrats Qpheevr and Satyen. Your clues are now in our HALL OF FAME.

Also Check out the Leaderboard for 2023.

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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