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Countdown recap for Wednesday 21 September 2011.
C1: Champion Andy Royce (1 win, 96 points.) A legal claims handler from Bristol. He claims to be an all-round sportsman liking golf, football and skiing in particular. One of his greatest memories was paragliding in the French Alps.
C2: Challenger Daniel Kirby-James. A sales administrator from Weston-Super-Mare. The 3 words his family and friends use to describe Daniel are "competitive sausage enthusiast".
He also suffers from bambakomallophobia, a fear of.......... cotton wool. 
DC: Susie Dent and Dave Spikey.
RR: Rachel Riley.
OT: Other words or solutions.
R01: C A M R I P Y P O
R02: N E C I N R E S C
R03: X N A O L T E R A
R04: T V S E A H E R T
R05: 25, 50, 10, 3, 7, 4. Target: 122.
TTT: EARTHFLY - "Does a priest have this sort of figure?"
R06: L O S A B L E D L
R07: R O G A R T F E U
R08: M A S G E H S O E
R09: B I O Z T N E W A
R10: 75, 6, 7, 4, 3, 10. Target: 810.
TTT: MENATSEA - "A relaxed bloke or several creatures at sea"
R11: G N I E T A R S N
R12: T E D A N O S I W
R13: M D A P E F T I A
R14: 100, 8, 6, 7, 2, 9. Target: 335.
R15: H E Y D O G R U N (conundrum)
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Round 1: C A M R I P Y P O
C1: PRIMACY (7)
C2: CRAPPY (6)
Score: 7–0 (max 7)
Andy seems to be carrying on from where he left off yesterday with an impressive darrenic 7.
Round 2: N E C I N R E S C
C1: SINCERE (7)
C2: SINCERE (7)
OT: CERESIN (7) ECCRINE (7) INCENSE (7) NERINES (7) SCIENCE (7)
Score: 14–7 (max 14)
Both contestants are SINCERE enough to find the obvious 7 here.
CERESIN is a white wax extracted from ozocerite, a waxlike mineral resin.
ECCRINE means of or pertaining to certain sweat glands, distributed over the entire body, that secrete a type of sweat important for regulating body heat.
A NERINE is any of several bulbous plants belonging to the genus Nerine, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having funnel-shaped red, pink, or white flowers.
Round 3: X N A O L T E R A
C1: LOANER (6)
C2: ALTER (5)
DC: ORNATE (6) ATONAL (6)
OT: RELAXANT (8)
Score: 20–7 (max 22)
An impressive darrenic 8 is left alone, as Andy pulls further away from Daniel at this early stage.
Round 4: T V S E A H E R T
C1: HARVEST (7)
C2: sheater
DC: THEATRES (8)
Score: 27–7 (max 30)
Another darrenic 8 in this one, but spotted by DC, as Daniel starts to get "sheater" and "sheater", if you get my drift.
Round 5: 25, 50, 10, 3, 7, 4. Target: 122.
C1: 122. (3 x 50) - 25 - (7 - 4) (10)
C2: 121.
Score: 37–7 (max 40)
Plenty of ways to get 122, but Daniel still can't get his brain into gear with this one.
Dave talks about occasions involving when things have been said that should have been "thought before being said".
Teatime teaser: EARTHFLY -> FATHERLY
Round 6: L O S A B L E D L
C1: losable
C2: labled
DC: DOABLE (6) ALBEDOS (7)
OT: BALLSED (7)
Score: 37–7 (max 47)
I think the OT word describes this round very well. Completely BALLSED up
Round 7: R O G A R T F E U
C1: OUTRAGE (7)
C2: forrage
DC: FORAGE (6)
OT: FORAGER (7) FOREGUT (7) GRAFTER (7) GROUTER (7)
Score: 44–7 (max 54)
No to forrage, yes to FORAGE, but there was a FORAGER too.............
Round 8: M A S G E H S O E
C1: SHAMES (6)
C2: MESSAGE (7)
OT: HOMAGES (7)
Score: 44–14 (max 61)
But all of a sudden, Daniel pulls a good 7 out of the bag........
Round 9: B I O Z T N E W A
C1: bionet
C2: BOATIE (6)
DC: BOTANIZE (8)
Score: 44–20 (max 69)
..........., and while DC go darrenic 8 again, Andy's dodgy 6 is sunk by Daniel's BOATIE.
Susie's Origins Of Words talks about the origins of the phrases, "chop-chop" "chop and change" and "chop" in general.
Round 10: 75, 6, 7, 4, 3, 10. Target: 810.
C1: 810. ((7 + 3) x 75) + (10 x 6) (10)
C2: 810. (75 x 10) + ((7 + 3) x 6) (10)
Score: 54–30 (max 79)
(75 + 6) x 10. Easy, innit
Teatime teaser: MENATSEA -> MANATEES
Round 11: G N I E T A R S N
C1: GRANNIES (8)
C2: RESTING (7)
OT: ANGRIEST (8) ANTIGENS (8) EARNINGS (8) ENGRAINS (8) ENTRAINS (8) GANISTER (8) GANTRIES (8) GENTIANS (8) GRANITES (8) INGRATES (8) RANGIEST (8) RANTINGS (8) TASERING (8) TRANNIES (8)
Score: 62–30 (max 87)
Flattttttttttttttttttttttt. Oh wait, Daniel's returned to his old self again.
An ANTIGEN is any substance that can stimulate the production of antibodies and combine specifically with them.
A GANISTER is a highly refractory, siliceous rock used to line furnaces.
A GENTIAN is any of several plants of the genera Gentiana, Gentianella and Gentianopsis, having usually blue, or sometimes yellow, white, or red, flowers, as the fringed gentian of North America, or Gentiana lutea of Europe.
Round 12: T E D A N O S I W
C1: STAINED (7)
C2: DONATES (7)
DC: SEDATION (8) DOWNIEST (8)
Score: 69–37 (max 95)
Double darren time from DC as Andy closes in on win #2.
Round 13: M D A P E F T I A
C1: MATED (5)
C2: TAPED (5)
DC: ADIPATE (7)
Score: 74–42 (max 102)
And while DC celebrate darrenicness for the umpteenth time today, Andy can celebrate his triumph too.
Round 14: 100, 8, 6, 7, 2, 9. Target: 335.
C1: -
C2: -
RR: 335. ((100 x 7) / 2) - (6 + 9) (10)
Score: 74–42 (max 112)
Oh dear.............., and clearly great minds think alike as Rachel uses my method to get the answer.
Round 15: H E Y D O G R U N
C2 buzzes on 21.5 seconds to say HYDROGEN which is INCORRECT.
C1 does not buzz.
The answer was GREYHOUND.
Final Score: 74–42 (max 122)
A very appropriate conundrum, but Daniel seems to think that we're still playing the letters game, as he finds an 8, rather than the 9, but no matter, Andy takes his 2nd win, but after yesterday's impressive win, today's win has probably left a lot of us deflated.
Not only that, but that's now 4 days in a row when the conundrum hasn't been solved........
Expect an easy -ING tomorrow. Join me tomorrow for that.
Till then, bye bye.
Statistics Corner
Andy:
Total score - 74
Raw score - 80
Total % of max - 61
Raw % of max - 66
Total average score per round - 4.9
Raw average score per round - 5.3
Number of maxes - 6
Daniel:
Total score - 42
Raw score - 67
Total % of max - 34
Raw % of max - 55
Total average score per round - 2.8
Raw average score per round - 4.5
Number of maxes - 3
Further summaries are at:
http://www.apterous.org/cdb/series.php?series=65
