And with her own BRAND of words, Jo Brand makes a welcome entry to the Robinson Recap too. 
So, time to enjoy.
Countdown recap for Wednesday 11 July 2012.
C1: Champion Paul James (3 wins, 311 points.) An Apterite from Brampton, Cumbria. His favourite place is Gilsland, near the Northumberland-Cumbria border, which he says is a nice place to spend a summer's afternoon.
C2: Challenger Tom Leslie. An Apterite from Dalton-In-Furness, Cumbria. He works as a council tax revenues officer. He recently visited his brother in South Korea, and even spent a day in the DMZ (De-Militarized Zone).
DC: Susie Dent and Jo Brand.
RR: Rachel Riley.
OT: Other words or solutions.
R01: P R N G I U A I L
R02: B R A S E L D O E
R03: L S N J E A I H X
R04: T G E C I Y E T F
R05: 100, 75, 25, 50, 1, 8. Target: 491.
TTT: REDTREES - "It sounds like he's absconded after dinner"
R06: D N O P U S E C N
R07: V R B D I A O A S
R08: M L E R A N U S M
R09: R N R T A I U A E
R10: 100, 75, 5, 6, 1, 8. Target: 972.
TTT: PASSPORT - "They need a passport to perform all over the world"
R11: P D W T E O E O S
R12: K L E N O G A S M
R13: R P S D E I E A F
R14: 50, 75, 10, 6, 1, 3. Target: 928.
R15: C A T S G O A P E (conundrum)
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Round 1: P R N G I U A I L
C1: PAIRING (7)
C2: PAIRING (7)
OT: LAIRING (7) NAUPLII (7) PURLING (7) RAILING (7)
Score: 7–7 (max 7)
Nice flat start, appropriately PAIRED with PAIRING.
In most crustaceans, a NAUPLIUS (plural NAUPLII) is a larval form with three pairs of appendages and a single median eye, occurring usually as the first stage of development after leaving the egg.
To PURL is to knit with a reverse stitch.
Round 2: B R A S E L D O E
C1: RELOADS (7)
C2: LEADERS (7)
DC: braseed EARLOBES (8)
OT: LEEBOARDS (18)
Score: 14–14 (max 25)
A super impressive 9 (which I always seem to miss (no exception today
)) is missed by all, but while Jo shows off her braseed, Susie shows off her impressive EARLOBES. A LEEBOARD is either of two broad, flat objects attached to the sides of a sailing ship amidships, the one on the lee side being lowered into the water to prevent the ship from making leeway.
Round 3: L S N J E A I H X
C1: INHALES (7)
C2: JEANS (5)
Score: 21–14 (max 32)
A sharp gasp of air and Paul's darren takes him into the lead.
Round 4: T G E C I Y E T F
C1: CITY (4)
C2: fitty
DC: cigyteet
OT: FYTTE (5)
Score: 25–14 (max 37)
A very nasty round, unless you're called Jo Brand of course.
But, Tom is unfortunate as fitty is apparently a local dialect work where he comes from. 
FYTTE means qualified or competent, as for an office or function.
Round 5: 100, 75, 25, 50, 1, 8. Target: 491.
C1: 496. (8 x 50) + 100 - ((75 / 25) + 1) (7)
C2: 496. (8 x 50) + 100 - ((75 / 25) + 1) (7)
RR: 491. (((75 + 50) / 25) x 100) - 8 - 1 (10)
Score: 32–21 (max 47)
Back to 4 large for Paul, but he misses the method that uses the 2 smalls to full effect. Well, Tom does too, so no harm done.
Jo talks about problematic words, such as "quintastic", a term for 50-year-olds, who are still in peak condition.
Teatime teaser: REDTREES -> DESERTER
Round 6: D N O P U S E C N
C1: POUNCED (7)
C2: enpounds
OT: POUNCES (7) UNPOSED (7)
Score: 39–21 (max 54)
Oh dear, a bit of an unnecessary risk by Tom. Well, unless he didn't have either of the 7's, I guess..........
Round 7: V R B D I A O A S
C1: BRAVADO (7)
C2: DIVAS (5)
DC: BAVAROIS (8)
Score: 46–21 (max 62)
An impressive BRAVADO by Paul, which even DC didn't get. And another thing they didn't get was the darren, which was go by "he who lives upstairs".
Round 8: M L E R A N U S M
C1: NUMERALS (8)
C2: MANURES (7)
DC: unmeals
OT: MENSURAL (8)
Score: 54–21 (max 70)
Paul's letters and numbers both add up and that's another good 8 points for him.
MENSURAL is an adjective meaning pertaining to measure.
Round 9: R N R T A I U A E
C1: NARRATE (7)
C2: TRAINER (7)
DC: raturine
OT: RETRAIN (7) RUNTIER (7) TAURINE (7) TERRAIN (7) URINATE (7)
Score: 61–28 (max 77)
Plenty of 7's around, although Jo likes to follow yesterday's caturine with raturine!!
TAURINE is an adjective meaning of, pertaining to, or resembling a bull.
Susie's Origins Of Words talks about the origins of words derived from "Franks", the original settlers in France, such as "franchise" and "franking".
Round 10: 100, 75, 5, 6, 1, 8. Target: 972.
C1: 974. ((8 + 1) x 100) + 75 - (6 - 5) (7)
C2: 974. ((8 + 5) x 75) - 1 (7)
RR: 972. (75 + 6) x (8 + 5 - 1) (10)
Score: 68–35 (max 87)
Another stinky one if you can't see the trick.
Teatime teaser: PASSPORT -> POPSTARS WOAH!!! WOAH!!! POPSTARS (or even POPSTAR isn't in the dictionary.)
Round 11: P D W T E O E O S
C1: STOOPED (7)
C2: POSTED (6)
DC: wedspot
OT: SWOOPED (7)
Score: 75–35 (max 94)
Paul's lead is now extended to a double score. Surely, his half-octochampdom is all but guaranteed now.
Round 12: K L E N O G A S M
C1: MANGLES (7)
C2: SLOGAN (6)
DC: monkgas
OT: KALONGS (7) MANGELS (7) MANGOES (7)
Score: 82–35 (max 101)
And indeed it is thanks to his MANGLES and not Jo's monkgas.
A KALONG is a large flying fox of Southeast Asia.
A MANGEL (or MANGELWURZEL) is a variety of the beet Beta vulgaris, cultivated as food for livestock.
Round 13: R P S D E I E A F
C1: PRAISED (7)
C2: PRAISED (7)
DC: FREESIA (7)
Me: AIRSPEED (8)
Score: 89–42 (max 109)
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, the AIRSPEED I've achieved in this round gives me the top marks. Paul also has the chance of bettering his high score of 106 too.
Round 14: 50, 75, 10, 6, 1, 3. Target: 928.
C1: 922.
C2: 926. ((10 + 3) x 75) - 50 + 1 (7)
RR: 928. ((50 + 1) x 6 x 3) + 10 (10)
Score: 89–49 (max 119)
Oh dear, not only can Paul not get his top score, but he can't even get a century now
But full marks (literally) to Rachel for a clean sweep of today's numbers games. Round 15: C A T S G O A P E
C1 buzzes on 9.25 seconds to say SCAPEGOAT which is correct.
Final Score: 99–49 (max 129)
But, he's still got a flawless conundrum record. 4 out of 4 and 410 points is pretty snappy, I must say. I so hope that Paul can keep it up for another 4 shows to be the first octochamp of the series.
Join me tomorrow to see if he can make it 5 of a kind.
So, till then, bye bye for now.
Statistics Corner
Paul:
Total score - 99
Raw score - 104
Total % of max - 77
Raw % of max - 81
Total average score per round - 6.6
Raw average score per round - 6.9
Number of maxes - 8
Tom:
Total score - 49
Raw score - 78
Total % of max - 38
Raw % of max - 60
Total average score per round - 3.3
Raw average score per round - 5.2
Number of maxes - 2
Further summaries are at:
http://www.apterous.org/cdb/series.php?series=67