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greedy kite

19th April 2013, 23:44
Bullfrog: I meant jws # 30 (not 29) really -- genuine mistake! Please change!
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bullfrog

20th April 2013, 09:00
Morning all! As it stands, I make it jws with 5 to ab's 3, with Paul and Scottiemalottie still to vote. I'm popping out for an hour or so - I'll round it up when I get back.
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bullfrog

20th April 2013, 11:28
We have a winner! Congratulations jws and commiserations ab and the other runners-up - I did think at first that I might have to adjudicate a ten-way tie! I did wonder when I chose the word if anyone would go down the Thatcher route, and I must admit to being surprised that no one picked up on ixion's subtle variation on the same theme.

jws, your prize has a tenuous connection to Thatcher too - the lyricist Yip Harburg who wrote Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead, was also responsible for songs like April In Paris, Paper Moon, Brother Can You Spare A Dime, and this, performed here by the very wonderful Groucho Marx:
http://youtu.be/n4zRe_wvJw8
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rambler

20th April 2013, 11:40
congrats jws
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jws

20th April 2013, 11:52
Many thanks for the votes and thanks to Bullfrog for the word and the prize. I’m a great fan of the Marx Brothers.

I also have to thank Rosalind as my second clue originally mentioned the 6 characters play. When I saw Rosalind had already done it I made up the Thatcher clue instead.
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ab

20th April 2013, 11:54
Congratulations, jws.
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kiwikid

20th April 2013, 12:11
Congratulations jws, and thanks to bullfrog for the challenge this week. Some great clues!
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ixion

20th April 2013, 12:23
Well done jws
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mrw

20th April 2013, 12:47
Well done jws and thanks for the vote.
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chrise

20th April 2013, 13:16
Congrats jws. If we had had STV yours would have been my second choice.

(Now there's an idea .....to make things even more complicated!)
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