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Countdown recap for Thursday 24 February 2011.
C1: Champion Ned Pendleton (5 wins, 392 points.) An Apteforumite from London. He's a supporter of Coventry City, and also plays a bit of football as a striker. His favourite footballer is the ex-Coventry goalkeeper Steve Ogrizovic, who famously had his nose broken 7 times in his career!
C2: Challenger Dan McColm. An Apteforumite currently studying German and Russian at Durham University. He is trying to visit all 92 Football League grounds, and has vistied 35 so far, although not Jeff's beloved Victoria Park, home of Hartlepool United.
DC: Susie Dent and Mark Foster.
RR: Rachel Riley.
OT: Other words or solutions.
R01: C I D E A W R N L
R02: T Y T E A O R N B
R03: L E G U I N G S E
R04: S P R D U I E M R
R05: 75, 100, 50, 25, 3, 8. Target: 815.
TTT: CUTNAILS - "Time spent staring at the moon, they must be mad!"
R06: T N F E A E P T V
R07: S I T A U C R J O
R08: D L R T E U A E K
R09: S O M A I S L T V
R10: 75, 2, 7, 6, 10, 1. Target: 516.
TTT: FINECARS - "It's not fine cars they love, it's fine birds"
R11: N E H O I T M S Q
R12: P S G E A S N E C
R13: W A R U E L T D X
R14: 6, 6, 10, 8, 9, 1. Target: 638.
R15: B I O S P U T U M (conundrum)
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Round 1: C I D E A W R N L
C1: CLAWED (6)
C2: CRAWLED (7)
OT: CANDLER (7) CARLINE (7) RADICLE (7)
Score: 0–7 (max 7)
Our challenger has CRAWLED into an early lead in this one.
A CANDLER is a long, usually slender piece of tallow or wax with an embedded wick that is burned to give light.
A CARLINE is a Scottish term for an old woman.
A RADICLE is a botanical term for the lower part of the axis of an embryo; the primary root.
Round 2: T Y T E A O R N B
C1: notater
C2: BARONET (7)
DC: NOTARY (6) ATTORNEY (8)
OT: BETATRON (8)
Score: 0–14 (max 15)
And Dan's lead doubles thanks to his genuine 7 and Ned's false 7.
A BETATRON is an accelerator in which electrons are accelerated to high energies by an electric field produced by a changing magnetic field.
Round 3: L E G U I N G S E
C1: SEEING (6)
C2: LUGING (6)
DC: GENIUS (6) GUNGES (6) GLUEING (7)
OT: SEGUEING (8)
Score: 6–20 (max 23)
A few 6's around, as DC find a sticky 7, while the darrenic 8 is untouched.
SEGUEING comes from SEGUE, which is to continue at once with the next musical section or composition (often used as a musical direction).
Round 4: S P R D U I E M R
C1: SPURRED (7)
C2: supined
DC: DUMPERS (7)
OT: PRIMEURS (8)
Score: 13–20 (max 31)
Another darrenic 8 goes-a-begging, but Ned is back in it, following HIS genuine 7 and Dan's fake 7 which isn't even available to him.
Round 5: 75, 100, 50, 25, 3, 8. Target: 815.
C1: 815. (8 x 100) + (((75 + 50) / 25) x 3) (10)
C2: 815. (8 x 100) + (((75 + 50) / 25) x 3) (10)
Score: 23–30 (max 41)
Ned's 4 large strategy doesn't help him this time, and Dan maintains the lead going into the break.
Mark talks about the time when he ended up in the wrong VIP box while watching an England rugby union match at Twickenham.
Teatime teaser: CUTNAILS -> LUNATICS
Round 6: T N F E A E P T V
C1: PATENT (6)
C2: NEPETA (6)
DC: FATTEN (6)
OT: PATTEN (6) PATTEE (6)
Score: 29–36 (max 47)
Nice 6's all round. Clearly Susie forgets Krik offering her NEPETAS in the Series 60 final, after she claimed never to have heard it before.
A PATTEN is any of various kinds of footwear, as a wooden shoe, a shoe with a wooden sole, a chopine, etc., to protect the feet from mud or wetness.
Round 7: S I T A U C R J O
C1: COURTS (6)
C2: CRUST (5)
DC: SAUTOIR (7)
OT: CARIOUS (7) CURIOSA (7) CITROUS (7) CUATROS (7) SURCOAT (7) TURACOS (7)
Score: 35–36 (max 54)
Plenty of 7's around, but Ned's 6 beats Dan's 5 and the gap shrinks to 1.
A CUATRO is a small guitar with four or five strings or pairs of strings, used in Latin American and Caribbean music.
A SURCOAT is a garment worn over medieval armour, often embroidered with heraldic arms.
Round 8: D L R T E U A E K
C1: RELATED (7)
C2: redealt
DC: ALTERED (7)
OT: ALERTED (7) TREADLE (7)
Score: 42–36 (max 61)
And now Ned has the lead as Dan's 7 isn't there.
Round 9: S O M A I S L T V
C1: VITALS (6)
C2: VIOLAS (6)
DC: VOMITS (6) SALVOS (6)
OT: ALMOST (6) STOMAL (6) LISSOM (6) MALOTI (6) MISSAL (6) SALMIS (6) MOLVIS (6) SLASTO (6) SMOLTS (6) STOMAS (6) VISTAS (6) VLASTI (6)
Score: 48–42 (max 67)
Plenty of 6's in this tricky mix.
MALOTI is the plural of LOTI, a cupronickel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Lesotho, equal to 100 lisente.
A SALMI is a ragout of partially cooked game, as pheasant or woodcock, stewed in wine and butter.
A MOLVI (or MAULVI) is an expert in Islamic law, used especially as a term of respectful address among Muslims.
A SMOLT is a young, silvery salmon in the stage of its first migration to the sea.
Susie's Origins Of Words talks of the origins of the proverb, "you've laid your bed, and now you must lie in it".
Round 10: 75, 2, 7, 6, 10, 1. Target: 516.
C1: 516. (75 x 7) - (10 - 1) (10)
C2: 516. ((75 - 1) x 7) - 2 (10)
Score: 58–52 (max 77)
Teatime teaser: FINECARS -> FANCIERS
Round 11: N E H O I T M S Q
C1: MOISTEN (7)
C2: HOMIEST (7)
DC: INMOST (6)
OT: HISTONE (7)
Score: 65–59 (max 84)
Still nothing much separating these 2, bar the 6 points of course. This looks like it might be heading all the way.
Round 12: P S G E A S N E C
C1: ENCASES (7)
C2: ESCAPES (7)
DC: ENCAGES (7)
OT: SEANCES (7) SPENCES (7)
Score: 72–66 (max 91)
Pancake time
A SPENCE is a British dialect term for a pantry.
Round 13: W A R U E L T D X
C1: TRAWLED (7)
C2: warted
DC: LUXATED (7) DEXTRAL (7)
Score: 79–66 (max 98)
A clean sweep of the 7's by everyone, except for Dan, who offers a 6 that was disallowed last week.
Round 14: 6, 6, 10, 8, 9, 1. Target: 638.
C1: 638. ((6 + 1) x 9 x 10) + 8 (10)
C2: 639.
Score: 89–66 (max 108)
To try and counter Ned's expertise with 4 large, Dan goes with 6 small, but instead he bombs on a simple one, while Ned convincingly wraps the game up.
Round 15: B I O S P U T U M
No one buzzes. The answer was BUMPTIOUS.
Final Score: 89–66 (max 118)
Thankfully the conundrum didn't matter as a stinker seemingly solved by only 1 person in the audience appears.
So, Ned wins, but that scoreline does flatter him slightly as Dan was well in there until the last few rounds. But, he has reached 6 wins, but it looks like he'll have to stick in 3rd place for the time being as his total of 481 points, is a massive 415 behind Edward in 2nd
Join Mike tomorrow to see if Dan can make it a magnificent 7.
I'll be back next Wednesday for the next interesting installment of Series 64.
Till then, bye bye.
Statistics Corner
Ned:
Total score - 89
Raw score - 95
Total % of max - 75
Raw % of max - 81
Total average score per round - 5.9
Raw average score per round - 6.3
Number of maxes - 9
Dan:
Total score - 66
Raw score - 78
Total % of max - 56
Raw % of max - 66
Total average score per round - 4.4
Raw average score per round - 5.2
Number of maxes - 7
Further summaries are at:
http://www.apterous.org/cdb/series.php?series=64