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Looks like Jordan has flown off to join James in Italy, so I will have to start the thread.

Our cabin crew from Worthing, Glenn Clements, from Worthing has won two with speedy conundrum spots.
Can he survive a third? His challenger today is a talented artist called Suzi Purcell.

Alt numbers for the hard first one, but well out of time: (3x(100+6))-(7x10)=248. WAISTED and DESPITE as alts in R12.
Nice to see the alt spelling of "my" 9 come out in R7.

Tony Atkins wrote:WAISTED and DESPITE as alts in R12.

DESPITE was got by Glenn, Tony.............

Not a bad way to sign off before I jet off. A MAX GAME!!!!!!!

PERIANAL in round 6, CORONER/HORMONE in round 8 and MUTTONS in round 11.

1st Numbers Alt.: (100 + 10 + 7 + 7) x (6 - 4) = 248
3rd Numbers Alt.: ((50 + 9) x 8) + 1 = 473

No Italy for me, unfortunately, I did however travel today to my hometown for a mini-vacation so I missed today. Hopefully I'll be back for tomorrow's spoiler, filled with Americanisms and not so thinly-veiled criticisms at Dictionary Corner.

I see Leslie Garrett got quite a lot of stick way back in 2009 but has escaped it this time, it seems. I was just going to keep quiet but have to say she is a total bore and has the most awful facial expressions and body language and so and so on .... We actually have to speed forward when its 'singing time' and 'look at me' time.

I'm glad someone said that - it's that awful "oh no, is she going to sing... again?" time - and I'm an opera fan, but the gasps she gives when she breathes ... no wonder she's actually an ex-opera singer - though she managed to advertise her new album by name on every show this week. (*sighs*)

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