Spoilers For Friday October 21st 2011

[James Robinson]

So, we're approaching the climax of Week 16 of Series 65, and after a pretty impressive comeback topped off by that conundrum spot, Beryl is still the champ. Can she stay there for the week's end

Join Mike later to find out.

[Jordan F]

...Beryl's 81? I wouldn't have guessed.

[James Robinson]

...Beryl's 81? I wouldn't have guessed.

Must admit I was wondering if she was possibly gonna be in with a shout of breaking the oldest ever winner age. I think it's 84/87, so definitely not then.

[Tracey Lilly]

raiments for a 2nd round equaliser

[Andy Platt]

Tracey there was no T in round 2 sorry

Round 1 alternative nopales, round 3 copular as a DC beater (though I wasn't 100%, so probably would have declared gopura or giaour).

Bodied in 6 (did DC have 7? wasn't really concentrating), enrobes in 8, and an alternative in round 10 that didn't need the 100 is 6*4*10+(5-2).

[Tracey Lilly]

bodied DC equaliser round 6

[Tracey Lilly]

thanks andy - must have seen a phantom 'T'

[Tracey Lilly]

was nucleus there for a DC beater round 11

[Peter Mabey]

UNCLES + U = NUCLEUS

[Andy Platt]

Nucleus is excellent, Tracey. Had unisex personally.
976 in round 14 was there, with (7*3+10+8)*25+1, but was 977 there?

And how she didn't see SNEAKIEST after the challenger declared SNAKIEST i'm not too sure! Good episode though, some nice letters selections even if it took me about 15 seconds to remember the eights in round 12...

[Tony Atkins]

Good old LEOTARDS (or LODESTAR) as alternatives to TOADLETS/STARTLED.

[Jack Worsley]

OPENERS in round 8, LEOTARDS in round 9, don't know how everyone missed that. DELATORS is another alternative, while DERATION is an alternative for ORDINATE/RATIONED.

2nd numbers alt: ((6x4)+100)x2-5=243. 976 on the final numbers.

At first I thought Sam said SNEAKIEST on the conundrum, which is a possible explanation for Beryl not getting it.

[Joseph Krol]

I'm pretty sure in some accents snakiest could potentially be pronounced the same as sneakiest. It's a Countdown Conspiracy, which there are far too many of these days. I should make them into a book.

[James Robinson]

NEMESIAS in round 2 and BOREENS in round 8.

2nd Numbers Alt.: (6 x 4 x 10) + 5 - 2 = 243

[Graeme Cole]

At first I thought Sam said SNEAKIEST on the conundrum, which is a possible explanation for Beryl not getting it.

I thought Sam said SNEAKIEST too, but having watched it back he definitely said SNAKIEST. Jeff repeated the word back as well to confirm what he'd said.