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Thanks to everyone who contributed this week. I'm impressed by your combined ingenuity.
The final tally is:
1 vote each for rossim #3, tyke51 #13 & 22, aristo #19, geevo41 #21, peterm #26
2 votes for rossim's #39
The landslide winner with 7 votes, is skyewalker #16 with his succinct

Drunkard downs hard liquor

Great clue, SW. Your prize is... some shots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpp2GD6xxSI

Cheers.

Congratulations, skyewalker, and thanks, mattrom. Quite the gallery; Teddy Roosevelt looked like a thug. Thanks so much for the vote, hannah, and for the mentions, chrise, paul, and peterm.

Congratulations Skyewalker, pretty comprehensive win!
Thanks Mattrom for hosting.
Thanks also to Paul for the mention.

Congrats SW and thanks mattrom.
Some of those were more than a bit sinister!

Well done Skyewalker - the force is with you! - thanks for your vote - ditto BBM2 and thanks for mention Chrise. Good challenge Mattrom and some interesting shots!

Gobsmacked by the result. I wouldn't have voted for that clue! Thanks so much ChrisE, Rossim, Tyke, Fiery, Geevo, Paul and Penda for the votes, and Nemo, Spike and PeterM for the mentions. Thanks, also, for the kind words from my old "acquaintances" .

Thanks, Mattrom, for hosting and for my prize. It's weird how some of these people hardly seemed to change as they grew older whilst others became unrecognizable from their younger selves.

"See" you all next week.

Best wishes,
SW

You undersell yourself, SW - I thought it was a great clue! I'm not sure if it would be counted as "&lit", but it was close to that.

SW - well done - great clue

Congrats, SW, on your triumphal return and thanks for hosting, mattrom. Many thanks to aristo for his vote and encouragement, and to SW and nemo for their mentions.

Congratulations Sw
Cheers Mattrom