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Ian Volante wrote:Hmm, I've seen these but never noticed any interactivity.

There's a > to click on in one of the Os

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SENILITY as a beater of LIONISE

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R4: CAMASS

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(75-8)x(6+7)=871

Beat Rachel to it

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SCUNNERS instead of CRESSNUN^

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I think I had MURRAINS as a beater, unless I had an error in the letters.

INTERACT was there as an alternative to INTERCUT.
I did (75+3)/2 x (10+1) for 2nd numbers

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R10 numbers were 100,75,50,25,9,8
Contestants got 750 each - Baljeet did 8x100-50, but don't remember the other way.
Rachel did (75+8)x9+100/50 (10), so you need to adjust max.

R14 numbers: 293=100x3-7 Don't remember other numbers in the one-large selection, though.

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PHOTIC to equal PITHOI

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R10: AREOLOGY is the study of Mars (from Ares, the Greek equivalent)

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DERRIES in R3

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Alt. 3rd numbers (50-9)x4x3=492

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PRATIQUE to beat PARQUET (and I did find Rachel's solution pf 928, just within time

)

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I thought BUSING is the U.S. variant, as I'd only seen it used in reports from there

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Furthermore, when HOWZAT came up the other day, we were promised a cricket story, which might have been interesting - but she was just concerned with plugging her album

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I'm surprised that when Susie wondered about the pronunciation of DOSIMETER, she didn't refer to that given in the dictionary, which makes it clear that the first syllable is simply DOSE (rather obviously, from the definition).

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Surprised that 954 is regarded as difficult: it's obviously divisible by the 9, and then 106=105+1

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Another easy way for 2nd numbers:(10+5-1)x7x2

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Oliver must have been going well to do a 76-hour hike in three days

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ADJECTION - Not according to Lexplorer

Strange alternative for first numbers: (50+1)x(5x4+6)/6 - found in time

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Short way for 3rd numbers: (25+2)x(9+8)

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Second numbers: (50+4)x(10+7)x5/10 - I saw 9x51 instantly, which suggested trying 17x27, so well in time

Third: (25-4)x(9-2) is the easy way

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Perhaps she pronounced ENCLOCIRE^ "enclosure"

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Alternative last numbers:(10+7)x(50-5+2)=799

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Last numbers - well in time : (100+10+5+1)x7 = 812

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SOLANDER to beat LOANERS

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Alt 1st number 75x50/6

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I'm not surprised that Rachel didn't know APOTHEM, as the usual word for that is the IN-RADIUS^

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I don't recall actually wanting any particular occupation, but thought I would finish up as a teacher, like my father (and some of his sisters) - though as a mild Asperger's case, my interpersonal skills are poor. In those days there were no electronic or digital computers, so although I was interes...

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Another alt: (6x4-1)x(7+8)

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2nd from 192.com, then 5th 6th(from Countdown) 7th 8th 12, 13, 18-20 etc.
(1st 3rd & 4th are an Australian car dealer.)

I don't think hits from 192.com really count, as they just trawl electoral registers and such

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RUPTUREWORT

I can't find more than a 7-letter word in the next row - e.g. ALFALFA, where the plural isn't allowed

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Use big factors - eg 899 is 29x31, not 900-1; 7 is the best of the single digit multipliers.

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Games - Puzzles & Brainteasers Online Communities - Forum & Chat Providers Reference - General Reference - Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Science - Mathematics Age: 65+ Gender: Male Not to difficult to infer age from absence of 'Arts & Entertainment' categories, which I only ever look ...

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Although OZONES* is no good wasn't there OZONISER ?

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DITTANY beats DAINTY

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Actually there does seem to be such a thing (thanks Google)

A cabinet, container, room, or device used to protect perfumes and colognes from light and heat. Wine coolers and mini-fridges are often used.
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fumidor

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It spoils the delicate taste of strawberries to convert it into jam - so my favourites are blackcurrant and taspberry - I agree the latter is better for doughnuts. However, the best for my toast is lime marmalade.
BTW, did you know the author James Tiptree jr. took her pseudonym from a jamjar?

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TORQUES not quoters

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First numbers alt: (75+2)x(9+3)

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My old Auntie Edie only liked home made cakes - and told me she couldn't "abear boughten ones". (That would have been in about 1940, and she would have been about 60, so that would have been Isle of Wight dialect from 100 or so years ago

)

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No INDOLES* (Scrabble only), but DOLINES is good.

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I haven't seen anyone selling them this year - not surprising as one was mugged for her collecting box

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There was a series of half-hour interviews with Derren Brown on Radio 3 at about 10.30 (in the Essential Classics programme) - if you can still get them on iPlayer, they are 90 minutes after it starts.

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R11: OPAQUEST

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I'm before the 2 billionth

When you were born, you were the:1,977,350,775th person alive on Earth
73,664,067,427th person to have lived since history began

(Give or take a few hundred thousand

)

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EXILING to beat OILING & LEGION

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Sausages, spuds, green beans - and a glass of Chianti

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3rd numbers: (9+2)x(10+3)=143

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UNCLES + U = NUCLEUS

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Adam Gillard wrote:CRENELATED, CRENELATES and CRENELATING should all be in but aren't.

U.s. spellings are always out

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I don't buy any newspapers to read, unless I haven't got anything else for a longish train journey, when I pick up something with a reasonable puzzle page.

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As it takes me a while to get off to sleep again after waking up for a wee, I never get a full night's sleep these days

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Susie's been at the Chambers Wordlovers' Miscellany again

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3rd numbers: Did Rachel deliberately go the long way round for the 49 to use all the numbers instead of just saying (9-2)x7 ?

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Gavin Chipper wrote:Bath plugs don't need pins.

I use a safetypin to attach my bath plug to its chain after the link broke

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It seems that Susie's been sneaking a look at the new Chambers dictionary's "list of 43 words with pleasing sounds"

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And now let's have a picture of a CHAMOIS

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BRAHMAS

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Third numbers (10+8)x9

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