Spoilers for Wednesday 1st September 2021 (Series 84, Prelim 47)

[Toby McDonald]

OPHIURAS in R1
DEMOWARE in R11

[Rhys Benjamin]

Not a fan of Johnny Vaughan.

[Howie Myers]

OUTLANDS is not in lexico, although it was accepted in r10.
r9 alt: (100+9+1+3)*4 = 452
r 11 alt: MEANDER

[Philip A]

OUTLANDS is not in lexico, although it was accepted in r10.

It was accepted because it’s in Oxford Dictionaries Premium, which is the first source dictionary that’s used:

outland
Pronunciation: /ˈoutˌland/ Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtˌlænd/
Entry from US English dictionary <<< These entries can’t be found in Lexico but they’re still allowed

NOUN

(often outlands)
Remote or distant territory:
barbarian chiefs from the outlands
More example sentences
ADJECTIVE

1
Remote; distant.
1.1
Foreign:
in the charge of outland kings

[David Williams]

Not a fan of Johnny Vaughan.

You can never really be sure, but one suspects that he's one of the best guests ever at spotting words. If he was taking it seriously he would be a match for all but the very best contestants.

Or maybe they just all hate him so much they feed him invalid words through his earpiece.

[Fiona T]

Or maybe they just all hate him so much they feed him invalid words through his earpiece.

Haha I did wonder that I'd love that to be the case!

[Gevin Chapwell]

I had the same thoughts.

[Stewart Gordon]

My solution to the final numbers game:
75 × 6 + 50 × 3 + 7 + 5 = 612

Indeed, my solver reports 19 solutions - which I guess is quite a lot for one that has "lots of dead ends"!