Ramki Krishnan
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1ACCWC #555 – FREEBIES – Results
Thanks to Ramki Krishnan for hosting the contest. The contest elicited some clever ties in common cryptic surfaces: “on the house”, “giveaways,” “handouts,” “no charge,” etc. were often used definitions. Wordplay in several clues used beer/fries), insects (BEE), chips/fries, or anagrams/containers involving those elements. Voter comments focused on indirect anagrams, same-root issues (using “free” directly
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1ACCWC 534 – FACELIFT – Results
Ramki Krishnan hosted the previous contest and here’s his summary of the results. Results of the contest We had 26 clues and 29 voters. Two of the setters did not vote. Most of the clues used the FILE* inside FACT wordplay. Here are the results: Tied for 5th place with 18 points each: Manish Jhaveri’s
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1ACCWC 533 – SUMMIT – Results
Larry (@lowdowncryptic) hosted the previous contest and here’s his summary of the results. We had 22 clues and 25 voters this week. On the way to the summit, here are the 5 highest-scoring clues… Satyen Nabar is in 5th place with 22 points: Crown of diamonds perhaps enthralling couple of maidens @qpheevr takes 4th place
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1ACCWC 524 – RETALIATE – Results
Ramki Krishnan hosted last week and here’s his summary of the results. Here are the results 26 clues and 25 voters. A few of the setters did not vote, unfortunately. Revenge / avenge, Fight back, get back, counter etc were the common definitions used. Tied at 4th place with 18 points, two clues which used
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1ACCWC 508 – BUDGET – Results
Ramki Krishnan hosted last week and here’s his summary of the results. We had 27 clues and 27 voters (all setters voted!) It was a relatively low-scoring but tightly fought contest. Most common wordplays were BUDGE + T Over to the results: In 4-way tie with score of 16 are: Sitter’s commentary on UK politics