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.......but be fair

It did mean most of us didn't have to consult our favourite lexicons for the precise meaning of the set word!

Yes. But I didn't take any pleasure in that.

I move that this weeks competition be rendered null and void on the grounds that the chosen word is not English,and that it gives the Germans an unfair advantage.

Let's just hope it doesn't go to penalties...

Doctor endured chafes, enjoying discomfort (13)

I move that anyone who mistakes a quote (which I thought was interesting) for a clue is mentally incompetent to judge anything or submit an entry and should be immediately consigned to a loony-bin :-)

OK, here's a real (topical) entry:
Bounder, star of Two and a Half Men, needs psychoanalyst - serves him right !

Unfaded cheers as German shot and fried her. (13)

For what its worth!!

With the exception of me and the cat, he and the crude, fascinated mob ran riot and laughed at the flogging!

I guess I shoud rephrase the above.

With the exception of Tom and I, he and the crude, fascinated mob ran riot and laughed at the flogging!