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Bullfrog: I meant jws # 30 (not 29) really -- genuine mistake! Please change!

Morning all! As it stands, I make it jws with 5 to ab's 3, with Paul and Scottiemalottie still to vote. I'm popping out for an hour or so - I'll round it up when I get back.

We have a winner! Congratulations jws and commiserations ab and the other runners-up - I did think at first that I might have to adjudicate a ten-way tie! I did wonder when I chose the word if anyone would go down the Thatcher route, and I must admit to being surprised that no one picked up on ixion's subtle variation on the same theme.

jws, your prize has a tenuous connection to Thatcher too - the lyricist Yip Harburg who wrote Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead, was also responsible for songs like April In Paris, Paper Moon, Brother Can You Spare A Dime, and this, performed here by the very wonderful Groucho Marx:
http://youtu.be/n4zRe_wvJw8

congrats jws

Many thanks for the votes and thanks to Bullfrog for the word and the prize. I’m a great fan of the Marx Brothers.

I also have to thank Rosalind as my second clue originally mentioned the 6 characters play. When I saw Rosalind had already done it I made up the Thatcher clue instead.

Congratulations, jws.

Congratulations jws, and thanks to bullfrog for the challenge this week. Some great clues!

Well done jws

Well done jws and thanks for the vote.

Congrats jws. If we had had STV yours would have been my second choice.

(Now there's an idea .....to make things even more complicated!)