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patrich

19th January 2022, 19:24
Caught echidna, confused after losing its identity, possibly (6)

[C + anag. of echidna less ID; possibly = chance as an adverb, ‘perchance’, per Chambers, apparently!]
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jono

19th January 2022, 20:10
Thanks to all for your entries this week. It’s been a hard one to judge and apologies if I don’t give you a mention below.

My shortlist consisted of…
Fiery@4 for the revolutionary / freedom fighters.
Tyke@5 for a hidden with a three-way-split which I think is a neat trick to pull off.
I liked Mattrom@7’s cryptic wordplay and Geeker@8’s baseball play which I suspect would be tricky if (like me) you didn’t know the reference.
I predicted Aristo@9’s homophone might make an appearance but this was especially well concealed.
Liked Paul and Patrich’s topical chancellor references. Richi may have his eyes on a promotion sooner than later at this rate ;-)
Patrich@13, @14, Buddy @22 and Dorrien@38 each received ticks, as did Fiery@27’s subtraction which I didn’t see at first which is probably a sign of a good clue.

However, there can only be one winner, so I’m going with…

Revolutionary holds freedom fighters' fate (6)

Congratulations Fiery Jack!

Here are your prizes…
https://youtu.be/0D7hFHfLEyk
…and predictably perhaps…
https://youtu.be/-crgQGdpZR0

And for all contributors, this link generates a random Wikipedia page (of which there are 6.4 million in English) so you should each get something different.
Be lucky!
https://en.m.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

Cheers all!
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jono

19th January 2022, 20:14
…I’ll try that last link again…
https://en.m.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random”
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jono

19th January 2022, 20:19
Ok, it doesn’t like the colon, this should work…
tinyurl.com/bdzd23am
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spike2

19th January 2022, 20:22
Nice one, Fieryjack! Thanks, Jono.
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tyke51

19th January 2022, 20:31
Well done Fieryj - a deserved win! Thanks for the mention Jono - enjoyed the clips - I don`t remember all the `Python` stuff but most of it was really good.
PR to appear shortly ...
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patrich

19th January 2022, 21:10
Well done fieryjack, a very worthy winner. Thanks for hosting, and for the mentions, jono - a good contest!
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mattrom

19th January 2022, 21:22
Well done, FJ, nice clue. Thanks, Jono, for the mention and the challenge.
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paul

19th January 2022, 22:03
Good one FJ! Cheers Jon and thanks for the mention.
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chrise

19th January 2022, 22:24
Congrats FJ and thanks jono.

The second clip was a bit disillusioning. When I was in my 20s, I thought the girls in ABBA were very pretty, but not in that clip!

I also thought that African Swallows were the same as European ones. I had no idea how many different species of swallow there are!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_swallow
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