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Congrats buddy and thanks mattrom. Thanks paul, tyke, jono and spike for the votes.
One of the clips reminded me of a classic bit of misunderstanding of probablity. During the Apollo 13 mission, the (amateur) astronomer Patrick Moore was on the panel, He said something like "they may have been hit by a meteor. I rather hope that they have, because the chances of being hit by a meteor are so low that there is very little chance of them being hit by another one."

Congrats Buddy, good challenge Mattrom and thanks all for votes, particularly the one from Paul for what I thought was a fairly obscure reference to an early 18th century play ;-)

Thanks all for the votes and to mattrom for the challenge & clips. I will start scheming for next weekend forthwith.

Well done, Buddy. Thanks for hosting, Mattrom.

Votes from Buddy, Tyke51, Paul, and Chrise, much appreciated.

Well done Buddy and richly deserved!

Thanks Mattrom. A good challenge. Looking forward to watching the British Humour prize....

Thanks for the votes Jon, Tyke, and Geeker,

Jon - first of all thanks for appreciating my clue 9, I was inspired by your posting this week as to devices for removing a letter. If there were an "edit" function I woud have changed "vacant" to "redundant". Secondly I am afraid you have overestimated my knowledge as I thought your def was simply an imaginative semi-DBE generalisation of one of the synonyms - I had used a similar meaning with my clue16!

Hehe, Paul, the “ Beaux’ Stratagem ” is a play by George Farquhar (c1707) which involves two young men, the “beaux”, who have no money and set out to marry women of wealth, (not tarts, so that is unfair) and naturally it involves a large sum of money (the treasure), so rather tenuously the clue was intended as an extended definition.