And the Contest Winner is…

Thank you for your excellent response to the Solve Three Clues and Win a Gift Voucher contest. Some of you have been asking about the answers, sorry I couldn't give any hints this time! I hope you enjoyed mulling over the clues even if you didn't solve all of them.

It is now time to end the suspense and announce the result – the answers, and the winner's name.

The Answers

Candid love note (4) OPEN
O (love) PEN (note, verb); definition: candid

Small bag or small neat bags (5) PURSE
PURE (neat) bags i.e. contains S (small); definition: small bag

Connects phone call interrupting routes (7)STRINGS
RING (phone call) interrupting STs (short for streets i.e. routes); definition: connects

Those Who Got Them All

The contest received 16 all-correct entries. Applause for all of you who cracked it:

Bhavan Bhalchandra Pasupathy raghunath Big Dave Tony Sebastian Arjun Lakshmi Mohan Albatross rajesh

David Stickley Lakshmi Vaidyanathan Carrie Niziolek Nadathur Rajan Gary Jones Shyam Venkatesh Sanjeev Vaidyanathan

One opted out of the draw, many tweeted and got a double entry. Since this was not a very easy contest, I've been lenient with the rules. If you posted your answers in one comment and followed it up with a correction in another, I have accepted the correction. If you missed mentioning your tweet in the comment but I happened to see it and remember it, I have considered it for the draw.

In all, 22 entries went into the draw to pick the winner. The draw was done with random.org.

And The Lucky Winner Is…

Albatross (Abhay Prasanna)

Congratulations!

The winning entry:

Watch the action live in this video (if your reader/email client does not display the video, visit the blog):

Abhay, please write to me with your choice of gift voucher and I'll send it right away. 

Thanks to www.CupoNation.in for sponsoring the prize. You might want to check out their book discounts on Indian e-stores. And to @diogeneb for test-solving the contest clues. [He got them all within minutes.]

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