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Liked paul 10, tyke 14, jono 21, mprs 24, JWS 30

Voting for rossim 33

The track stewards are in confab and will report back with the results of their inquiry shortly.

We have quite a logjam in the "show" position with aristo@4, paul@10, paulh@12, jono@13 and dorrien@28 with one vote each.

With a late surge rossim@33 forces a photo finish with jono@21: 5 votes each. Who will win, who will place?

Very difficult to choose, but ultimately the silver goes to jono@21 for

Western premier deposed by a freak (10)

Why? I thought equating "freak" and "accidental" was off by just a hair. You often hear the phrase "freak accident" but it does not mean "accidental accident". This is very hair-splitting, I know. Sorry.

That means the gold goes to the late-surging rossim@33 for the lovely acrostic:

A car crash? I didn't even notice traffic to begin with. (8)

Congrats to rossim, sorry jono.

Your choice of prizes:

Highbrow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k5bR0JH_5k

(Exceedingly) lowbrow - you want to look away... but can you?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJVkm1L-5PA

And no points whatsoever for guessing the bonus musical track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLCj95iIgzg

Congrats rossim. Thanks for the mention, dorrien.
Thanks for officiating, buddy, and for the clips. I thought I knew the Penzias and Wilson story, but I didn't know about the pigeons!

Congratulations, Rossim! Neat clue. Commiserations, Jono.
Thanks for hosting, Buddy and for another Costello classic!

Thanks to Tyke51 and Jono for the most welcome mentions.

Wow! That was a surprise, especially with the late votes.
Commiserations Jono. I liked your clue. That's why I voted for it!

Thanks for votes from Jono!, Marty, Spike, JWS and Mattrom and for your like for my other clue, Paul.

It is hard to write an acrostic without it being too obvious. I thought the ? broke it up and also served as definition by example. I still didn't expect to win though!

Thanks for hosting Buddy. I will look at my prizes later as I have a long zoom meeting tonight.

I'll see what I can come up with next week. See you all then.

Well done Rossim - bad luck Jono! Enjoyed the clips Buddy - the local wood pigeons provide plenty of background noise around here! 🐦
Thanks for mentions Jono & Mattrom!

Well done to both Jono and Rossim. Thanks for the challenge and calling the race, Buddy.

Well done, rossim, and thanks for the vote, faiton, and for the likes, Jono, dorrien and Spike2.

Great collection of clips, buddy. Thanks for hosting.

Definitely the worthy winner Rossim, your “?” made it for me, hence my vote. Thanks for votes and thanks Buddy for hosting, liked the clips.