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Spike2 @10 for using American football! And "Da Bears" won last night.

@aristo;
Gradually losing battle with said dotee over Roblox video game....

Paul @ 6

Apologies for my late entry. I have voted anyway.

Silver Mattrom #5
Gold Aristo #19 Good to see the Bad Boy let out of the box again.

Just watched Buccaneers/Bears, perhaps I should have looked at PR before doing so...

It’s a two horse race with Buddy and FieryJack still to vote... could still be a photo finish

my shortlist is aristo 19 & mattrom 7, so no matter who I vote for, paul wins.

vote is for aristo 19 - saucy!

I thought this would be one for the anagrammers and so it proved...
Aristo takes the bronze with a suggestive reference to a ‘substantial chest’, what could he mean?
Faiton, in silver, deploys ‘unorthodox’ as an anagrind, which I for one enjoyed.
But it was Paul, quick off the mark with a wonderfully disguised anagram, who takes gold with..

“She’s a gold-digger - true?” “True - she ran off!” (8,6)

And the prize... is a story told from the 1970s... (I remember this, anyone else?)
https://youtu.be/3yaHBdhIsCo
And as it was so close, a runner-up prize seems in order... continuing the 1970s theme...
https://youtu.be/cVWdbO6FFfw

Congratulations, Paul, it's becoming quite a habit.
Thanks for hosting, Jono.

Many thanks to Mathprof for the much appreciated vote. I seem to be going US quite frequently of late.

Your Cowboys D-line should have an easier time this week, facing an inept Giants offense.

Congrats paul and thanks jono.

I must have been one of the few people in the country not to buy "Masquerade" - ironic, as I've participated in team armchair treasure hunts every Christmas for the last three years!

Chris, yes indeed, I still have the Masquerade book on my shelf, which was the inspiration for setting this in fact!