India, April 7 -- Sahil Sandeep Sabne of Suryadatta National School, Pune, is the national topper of the Practice Round of the 14th edition of the inter-school CCCC Cryptic Crossword Contest, popular as CCCC among students across India. Sabne played solo. The team of Anjali Nanduri and Aradhya Ranjith from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Public School (Vidyashram), Hyderabad, was runner-up. They were followed by Dhairya Pandey, another solo player, from Don Bosco Academy, Patna, in the third place in the national ranking.

Nanya Dev Singh of DPS Patna, who played solo, is the state topper from Bihar. While the team of Ramya Bindal and Aryan Sejwal from The Mother's International School was the Delhi topper, that of Tanvi Uddaraja and Aanya Sriva...