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Receiving cheers, Juliet's second, after running out of energy in shoot-out (8)

Thanks for all who entered this week’s challenge. It was nice to see the return of Aristo and SimpleSimon after short breaks.

Using “The Buddy Method” (that sounds like a self help book) I had a young helper copy the clues into a spreadsheet and reorder them so I could judge them ‘blind’.

I was hoping the “Paul” anagram would appear and sure enough it was Paul himself who picked up on it first. Liked the anagrams from Buddy@6, Chris@14, SSimon and Geeker.
Paul@16 put me in mind of Monty Python, but on investigation, the mechanism by which the French hurled the cow at Arthur is not clear.

Joint third goes to Buddy@6, Aristo@17, Chris @18.
Second goes to Spikepunk@21 for the Shakespearean reference.
First is Mattrom @11 for a nice surface and clever construction …

A chick wanting love chases chap for fling (8)

Congratulations Mattrom, here are the prizes…

A trebuchet in action…
https://youtu.be/M1iPxY3FYNE
Aircraft catapult system…
https://youtu.be/eoI98gjhx3Q
Counting Crows who I saw in here the UK a couple of times in the late 90’s…
https://youtu.be/v4Fi9hmQAS0

Well done, Mattrom. Thanks for hosting Jono, and for the silver medal. Very pleased!

Congrats mattrom- I gave up trying to think of anything else after seeing that clue since it was to me (and jono, it seems) so obviously the winner. But hey.... "joint" bronze (foreshadowing!)! Thanks to jono for hosting & clips. I would have bet 15 cents that one of them would be this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmBTV3nQFI8

congrats mattrom (I need a macro for that!) and thanks jono - also for the mentions.

Congrats Mattrom and Thanks Jon. I, too, agree with your choice- Mattroms clue was outstanding.
Pleased to report that I survived the mauling.

Well done Mattrom.
Thanks Jono.

Thank you, Jono, (and your helper) for the challenge and your choice. Interesting to see how a trebuchet works - no OH&S in those days, of course. Cheers till next week.

Congratulations Mattrom
Cheers Jono

Nice, mattrom. Thanks for the mention, jono.