Spoilers For Tuesday November 15th 2011

[James Robinson]

Squawk, squawk, or should that be **insert sparrow noise**, **insert sparrow noise** (if you saw OoW yesterday), in honour of DC guest John Parrott, not Alistair McGowan as previously advertised, but no matter, John is just as interesting anyway.

But, it's Paul Keane who is hogging the limelight at the moment with 3 wins under his belt now. Will he make it to half-octochampdom today, I wonder

Join Liam later for that.

[Tony Atkins]

DC didn't give the max in R1 because of the disallowed word. Nubbiest is also not in ODE3 (just nubby/nubbly), so the best seems to be 7 with UNITISE etc.

[Adam Gillard]

Jeff: Can you use it in a sentence?
Susie: Good morning; that's a nice HELLOED.

[Thomas Carey]

SINECURE / INSECURE round 11

[Brian Moore]

Jeff: Can you use it in a sentence?
Susie: Good morning; that's a nice HELLOED.

Or HULLOED. Or HALLOED. (I can't remember if there was an A in the selection, but there was a U, though I discounted the idea of HULLOED being allowed.)

Why do they bother with the alternative spellings of HELLO? They don't bother with other words that have a greater divergence of pronunciation (e.g., NEITHER/"NEATHER"), so why maintain this pointless distinction?

[Jack Worsley]

Thought Paul was below-par today after his previous performances. Hopefully that was just a blip and he'll be back to his best soon.

UNITISE/UNITIES in round 1.

3rd numbers alt: (50-6)x(10+10)+9=889

[James Robinson]

LOERIES in round 2 and ANORAK in round 3.

3rd Numbers Alt.: ((10 + 6) x 50) + (10 x 9) - 1 = 889

I got a 14-maxer, more than happy, only missed DAPHNIA, which I'd never heard of. Nice practice ahead of CoChest on Saturday.

[Andy McGurn]

COUNT in round 3

[Johnny Canuck]

COUNT in round 3

There's no U or T.

[Andy McGurn]

COUNT in round 3

There's no U or T.

I was making a joke, does anybody get it?