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This week’s contest was hosted by Sitter, and here’s his summary of the results.

Thanks for your clues for CONCAVE. Lacking inspiration, I found myself watching BBC coverage of the Conclave and I wondered how many of you would use that as wordplay? Just the one overt reference to the goings-on in the Vatican, but many were depressed!!

The runners-up this week are:

5th – Textrous with 18 points from 10 voters
4th – Ramki Krishnan (22 from 14)
3rd – VENKATESAN P (25 from 13)
2nd – Satyen Nabar (33 from 19)

But the (deserved, IMHO) winner, scoring 38 points from 17 voters, was Samit Kallianpur with, “Misusing cocaine, one becomes very depressed (7)”

A clue to be proud of! Over to you!

SR: Thanks for hosting Sitter. Congrats to Samit. His clue will be featured in our HALL OF FAME.

Here’s the link to the full results

Also Check out the Leader board for 2025.

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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