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Bronze; Mattrom 24 (for the good gnus….)
Silver Spike 21/22 (love “plastic surgeon”)
Gold Chris 2 - genius!

Mathprof @8; runner-up mathprof @18!

Mattrom @4 and Buddy @12 were my favorites, with Mattrom getting the vote.

I must be dense, but I'm not seeing where the final s comes from in Spike's clue.

Mathprof “last for hiS” = S

Thanks, jono. Told you I was dense.

Mprs #8

Thanks to all who entered this week’s challenge.

Tied in third place we have Tyke@10, Chris@2 and Mattrom@4…
…in second Mathprof@8…
…and out in front with an early three votes is Spike@22!

Congratulations Spike. I also thought that ‘plastic surgeon’ was particularly good (I’m definitely going to steal it ;-)

Here are the prizes…
I wonder what became of these youngsters from 1966. The “biologist” at 1:30 was clearly decades ahead of his time…
https://youtu.be/xS8xX3usi4c
…and for the homophonists “Jung stirs”…
https://youtu.be/dTod5CohoBQ

congrats spike and thanks jono, all those children sounded incredibly posh, like home service announcers from the 50s, making the queen sound common. i agree that the biologist had great insight!
thanks for the vote and the kind words, paul, and for the mention, tyke.

Congrats to spike and thanks to jono for hosting.