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Paul #14 just from buddy#2 and rossim #11

Likes Mattrom #6 and #11, PaulH#17 and BBM #18

Vote Rossim #11 Best surface

With just Paul H left to vote, we have a runaway winner, but second and third are still up for grabs. I will check back in later for a final accounting.

Busy day with golf and a bridge committee meeting, but hope I don't need to apologise for being last to vote, especially with over three hours to the deadline.

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Vote rossim @11

Paul, usually I'm the one voting last. I hope nobody wagered too much so they are anxious to know if their trifecta came in. Summing up and prize giving shortly.

As mentioned before, we have a decisive victory. First to the runners up though.

Honorable mention goes to Paul @14 for his slightly naughty lap dance, and to Aristophanes @13 for the GQ switch. Along with some of the voters' comments, I thought the wordplay was brilliant, but I suspect we were not quite convinced of the definition.

Tied for silver medals, with two votes each, are Marty and Peter with their constructions, the former with P + LEAGUE - E, and the latter with his French influence.

When I chose the word, the construction P + L + AGUE was the first that came to mind, but it was still left to our runaway winner, Rossim, to create the clever surface we see in:

Disease, extremely painful followed by fever. (6)

Well done! Here are your prizes:

As has become somewhat standard, first the educational:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSYPwX4NPg4

and the entertainment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcbR1J_4ICg

and finally the music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3_OOGCYPTk

I should finish reading The Plague after all these years, but I did read L'Etranger in my French class in college. The Cure based their first single on it.

Thanks MPRS.

Congrats rossim (nearly said "congrats mattrom"!). Your clue was my favourite, but if I'm being very picky, for the sake of the english rather than the clueing, I would have liked another comma after the "painful".

(When I'm doing my proofreading, I'm very particular about commas!)

Well done Rossim - very nice clue! Thanks for hosting Mprs and thanks to those for the mentions - much appreciated!

Congrats Rossim, nicely done. Thanks for mentions from Mattrom, Rossim and Paul. Cheers Mathprof, enjoyed the clips especially the Monty Python one

Very nice, rossim. Thanks, mathprof. (I thought the definition was fair, that bully is close enough to plague as "to disturb or annoy persistently, to torment." I always think of Teddy Roosevelt when I hear the word used in this surface way.) Your vote was much appreciated, buddy. Thanks also to mattrom, jono, and peterm for the mentions.