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00:30Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown on Monday, July the 29th.
00:35I hope you had a good weekend.
00:36Thank you so, so much for joining us back here on Countdown
00:39as we growl and roar and chuff and moan our way through 15 more rounds
00:44of letters and numbers.
00:46And only one contestant will be purring come 3 o'clock today.
00:50Welcome back, Rachel.
00:51Something to do with cats.
00:53Big Cats International Tiger Day today.
00:56Lovely.
00:56Absolutely. An endangered species, a good time to remind ourselves
01:00of their majesty and their importance.
01:03But I'm going to use this word, and let's see if you agree with it,
01:06I've went too far, what do you think?
01:08Iconic.
01:09I think the tiger is genuinely iconic as a creature.
01:13Well, it's the biggest of the big cats, isn't it?
01:16Yeah.
01:17No idea.
01:17It is. It's the biggest of the big cats.
01:19I remember we went to India on tiger safari back in 2018, I think.
01:23And I don't want to know how much per second that trip cost for how much tiger we saw.
01:30But we saw the back end of a tiger for a split second as it went off into the brush
01:36with two separate tiger safari camps.
01:39Did you, just before spotting the rear end of the tiger, did you go,
01:45is that buttered popcorn?
01:47Um, no.
01:48No.
01:49Is that what I'm supposed to have done?
01:50That is the smell of tiger urine.
01:53You could take a tiger to the cinema, and if he peed, no-one would kick him out.
01:59Yeah.
02:00It would just smell the same.
02:01Can't do that with a dog.
02:02Yeah.
02:03Yeah.
02:04All right.
02:04Yeah, not going to argue with that.
02:06Let's go to Dictionary Corner.
02:07Let's introduce our queen of the countdown jungle, Susie Dent.
02:11And she's joined this week, I don't think I'll ever say this line again,
02:14by somebody who's making her countdown debut this century.
02:18Last on in 1999, the award-winning comedian and writer and actress
02:24from The Young Ones to One Foot in the Grave and Forever Absolutely Fabulous,
02:29Helen Lederer.
02:30APPLAUSE
02:32So you haven't been on countdown since you were 21 years old?
02:35No, that was, yeah, well spotted.
02:37It's lovely to be here as a mature person.
02:40Nice to have you.
02:42Nice to have you.
02:42Well, you get to meet Stephen Woods for the first time.
02:45Second time for us, because he was championing Friday,
02:47with 91 points.
02:50Unfortunately, another Manchester United fan in the studio.
02:53But tell us about, you used to have a job
02:55where you planned big events for celebrities.
03:00You have to say it like that.
03:02Obviously, you can't, if you were good at that job,
03:04you can't tell me anything about it.
03:07I can tell you some bit.
03:09So a very popular music show, we arranged the first year.
03:12There should have been 2,000 people turned up to audition,
03:1620,000 people turned up,
03:18and it was the same day that the Prime Minister turned up to the hotel.
03:21So it was a little bit of a dilemma for us to deal with.
03:25Wow.
03:25Listen, best of luck to you today, Stephen.
03:27The secret's out in terms of your countdown playing.
03:30Very good start.
03:31You're up against Leanne Kennedy from Helensburgh in Scotland.
03:34How are you today?
03:35Yeah, yeah, good.
03:36Thanks, Colin.
03:37Nice to have you.
03:38Good England-Scotland battle today.
03:39You love the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
03:43Yeah.
03:43Nobody ever says, yeah, that's all right.
03:46You love it or you don't, right?
03:48It's an obsession.
03:48Tell me about it.
03:50Basically, I'd never seen the film before,
03:52and my husband had, and he told me I'd like it.
03:55But I started off with a musical,
03:56and then ever since then, I've loved it.
03:59And then that gave me a love for musicals as well.
04:01So I like Little Shop of Horrors and Hairspray and Grease.
04:05Well, I think Grease too is better, but...
04:07Do you go to the Rocky Horror Parties?
04:09Do you ever go to the parties?
04:10Yeah, we've done some of the sing-alongs and stuff like that as well, yeah.
04:13Oh, it's great inclusive and great night out
04:16and getting dressed up, having a sing.
04:18You don't have to be that good at it.
04:20Yeah, well, I'm not.
04:21That's what it's about, though, isn't it?
04:22Yeah.
04:23Everyone is there for the same thing, and, yeah.
04:26Well, listen, no horror show for you today, right?
04:28Just relax.
04:29You're part of the family now.
04:30Good luck, Leanne.
04:31And Stephen.
04:34Mr Woods, let's get nine letters.
04:36Good afternoon, Rachel.
04:37Good afternoon, Stephen.
04:38Please, could I start with a consonant?
04:39You can indeed start today with T.
04:42Another consonant.
04:44N.
04:45A vowel.
04:47U.
04:48Consonant.
04:50R.
04:51Vowel, please.
04:52E.
04:53Consonant.
04:55L.
04:56Consonant.
04:59T.
05:00Vowel.
05:00Vowel.
05:02I.
05:03And a final vowel, please.
05:05And a final A.
05:07At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
05:34MUSIC
05:40Feels big, this. Stephen? Seven.
05:43Seven, and Leanne? Seven is real, yeah.
05:45Well done, yeah. Good start, eh, Stephen?
05:47Retinal. Retinal. And what did you see, Leanne?
05:50Latrine. Latrine and retinal.
05:52Very good, indeed. Lovely.
05:54Lovely. What else did we get here at night?
05:57You'll be a bit rusty. It's been 24 years.
05:59Well, we had a rather nice word, urinal.
06:03But then you went one better, didn't you?
06:05Yeah, well, two better, actually.
06:06For eight, there is tenurial,
06:09which in the on-the-day is related to the tenure of land.
06:12Tenural and urinal. What a relief.
06:15Let's get more letters, Leanne.
06:16Hi, Rachel. Hi, Leanne. Can I start with a vowel, please?
06:19You can, indeed. Start with O.
06:21And another, thank you.
06:23U. And a third.
06:26A. Consonant, please.
06:29G. And another.
06:32M. And another.
06:35Y.
06:37Another vowel, please.
06:39A.
06:40A consonant.
06:42L.
06:43A final consonant, please.
06:46A final N.
06:47And 30 seconds.
06:48M. And another.
07:17A consonant.
07:18C laps.
07:18A consonant.
07:19Leigh-Anne. Sex. Yes. Stephen. Six. Leigh-Anne. Mangle. And Stephen. Got the same word. Mangle. Pass it over there.
07:29Any other words? Well, this is quite a nice word. Lounge. Because some people say you should only say sitting
07:37room or front room.
07:39But some people say lounge, don't they? Some people say lounge, some people say settees, settees, sofa, etc.
07:45And that's there for six. And quite a lustrous six as well with gleamy.
07:50Ooh, nice. Nice. 13 points each. First numbers of the week, Stephen Woods.
07:55I've been practising with my son and he insists that I pick two large and four small, please.
08:00Right, here we go. Two large, four small. You have to do what you're told. Well done.
08:04Four little ones. First time of the week. Four, ten, eight and eight.
08:09And the large two, 150. All the evens. And the target, 220.
08:15220. 220. Numbers up.
08:42Matter of all.
08:462, 2, 0, Stephen.
08:49220. 220. And for you, Leanne?
08:51318. Oh, just missed it.
08:53So, Stephen, here we go for 10 points.
08:55So, 100 plus 10. 110.
08:588 divided by 4 is 2. Yeah.
09:00Times them together. 220. Well done.
09:06No, actually, I'm just hearing Rule 74, Part 4, Paragraph B.
09:11No outside help from family.
09:12So, got to take those points off you.
09:14Well done, Leanne. Well done.
09:16Let's get our first tea time teaser.
09:17It's Neck Post. Neck Post.
09:19A box of barrows. This'll keep things flowing.
09:23A box of barrows. This'll keep things flowing.
09:41A box of barrows. This'll keep things flowing.
09:44Pen stock. Pen stock. Pens back up again, Leanne.
09:48More letters.
09:48Can I start with a vowel, please?
09:50Thank you, Leanne.
09:51O.
09:52And a second.
09:55A.
09:56And a third.
09:58A.
09:59Consonant.
10:01T.
10:02And another.
10:03A.
10:05A.
10:05And another.
10:06A.
10:07And another.
10:09B.
10:11A verbal.
10:14A.
10:15And another consonant, please.
10:16And lastly, F.
10:18Thank you, Rachel.
10:50Both pens went down very early there, let me tell you.
10:53Leanne? Seven. Yeah.
10:55Stephen? Seven. Leanne? Treason?
10:57Yeah, treason and Stephen. Boaster.
11:00Yeah, boaster and treason.
11:03There's no N for treason, unfortunately. I'm sorry to interrupt you.
11:06Oh, sorry. Oh, bad luck.
11:07What other sevens are? Can you take me higher?
11:09We can't take you higher, but we can add a few to the list.
11:12Yes, um, beaters.
11:14Yeah? I tip my boater hat to you,
11:17because the boaters are there as well.
11:19Absolutely. Right, let's get more letters in, shall we?
11:22And Stephen, you're up.
11:23Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
11:25Thank you, Stephen. H.
11:27Vowel. U.
11:30Consonant. G.
11:32Another consonant. D.
11:35A vowel. I.
11:37Another consonant. L.
11:40Vowel, please. O.
11:43Consonant. V.
11:45And a final vowel, please.
11:46And a final E.
11:48And half a minute.
12:15And a half a minute.
12:20Stephen? Seven.
12:22Leanne? Seven, hopefully.
12:23Hopefully it won't be a random end in there.
12:27Stephen? Divulge. Divulge and divulge your seven.
12:30Yeah, divulge as well. Pass it on over there.
12:32Brilliant work. Thank you.
12:34And there we go, seven points each. Wonderful. Talk to me, Ellen.
12:37Well, not a seven. No.
12:40We're not seven on this side, but gloved is quite a nice word.
12:44Yeah, gloved was all I managed as well. Look at that.
12:46Stephen and Leanne. Great work.
12:49And, Leanne, you're choosing the numbers for the first time.
12:52Just one large and the rest small, please.
12:54One from the top. Five not. Thank you, Leanne.
12:56And the five little ones for this round are one, four, three, ten and three.
13:03And a large one, 50.
13:04And you need to reach 344.
13:08Three, four, four. Numbers up.
13:39Three, four, four.
13:41The target, slightly more difficult than last time. Leanne?
13:43Three, four, four.
13:44Look at that. Settling in. Stephen?
13:46Three, four, four.
13:47Yes. With or without your son, you managed that. Off you go, Leanne.
13:51So I did ten, take the four and the one for seven.
13:56Times...
13:57Sorry, say it again.
13:58Ten, take four.
14:00Six.
14:00Plus one for seven, sorry.
14:02Plus one.
14:02Times the 50.
14:04And then take away both of the threes.
14:05Yep.
14:06Three, four, four. Well done.
14:07Stephen?
14:08Slightly different.
14:09So I did four plus three is seven.
14:11Yep.
14:12Times by 50.
14:13350.
14:14Ten minus three minus one is six.
14:17And take it off.
14:18It is indeed 344. Well done.
14:23Let's head over and have our first chat with Helen Ledder this week.
14:26Just very quickly.
14:27So who, 1999, was your last time in Dictionary Corner?
14:31What do you remember of it?
14:32Well, I remember Richard Whiteley.
14:36Yes.
14:37And I remember maybe I wasn't quite focused.
14:42Rare for me.
14:43And then he looked at me and he said,
14:46you're a bit of a one-off, aren't you?
14:49And then I thought, well, thinking about it now,
14:51all of us are one-offs, aren't we, really?
14:53But maybe in those days, it was less usual to be a one-off.
14:57I don't know what a one-off means,
14:59but I am a one-off, was a one-off.
15:01This is great.
15:02You're touring your memoir at the moment.
15:04And you think, like, what am I going to call my memoir?
15:06This is brilliant.
15:08Not that I'm bitter.
15:09What's a great name for a memoir?
15:11Tell us all about it.
15:12Well, I'm glad you saw the irony in that.
15:14And I'm in the right place, hopefully,
15:16for different connotations of words and plays.
15:20Yes, not that I'm bitter.
15:22So it's a slightly passive-aggressive book
15:26in the sense that I look back and I thought,
15:28I'm at this age and I can't remember all the things I've done.
15:32So it's an opportunity to do a pretend graph
15:34at the beginning and the end of the book.
15:36And I thought, I did stand-up comedy.
15:39Why?
15:40But I did do stand-up.
15:41I was that person doing stand-up comedy.
15:43And I wanted to remember it.
15:45And also make people laugh.
15:47The aim of the book.
15:48And I have been told when people have read it
15:51that they've laughed.
15:51That's really important to me.
15:53But it is alarmingly truthful.
15:55Yeah.
15:56Oh, it sounds fantastic.
15:57Well, listen, to quote Richard Whiteley,
15:59it would be remiss of me not to say this,
16:01Helen, you are a one-off.
16:02Thank you very much.
16:07Love that.
16:08So many things we could talk about.
16:09We could go for years without running out.
16:12So I can't wait till tomorrow.
16:13Let's get back to the game then.
16:1547.30.
16:16Our champ not getting it all his own way.
16:18More letters.
16:19Police going to start with a consonant.
16:21Thank you, Stephen.
16:22W.
16:22Vowel.
16:24A.
16:25Consonant.
16:26T.
16:28Another consonant.
16:29R.
16:30Vowel.
16:32E.
16:33Consonant.
16:35M.
16:36Vowel.
16:38U.
16:39Consonant.
16:40D.
16:41And a final consonant, please.
16:43And a final T.
16:44And here we go again.
17:17Stephen.
17:17Seven.
17:18Leigh-Anne.
17:19Six.
17:19Six from you, what have you got?
17:21Mutter.
17:22Mutter.
17:23And for you, Stephen?
17:24Matured.
17:25Well spotted.
17:26Very good indeed.
17:26Well spotted indeed.
17:27Big cheese.
17:29Seven points for you.
17:30Helen and Susie.
17:31Well, I like the matured, obviously, because that is the theme for today.
17:34But, um, mutated.
17:37Yes, mutated.
17:38We'll give you another seven.
17:40Very good.
17:40But nothing beyond that matured and mutated.
17:42No, sticking with sevens.
17:43Wow.
17:44All right, you're having to pull out top drawer words to get this lead so far.
17:47So keep the faith, Leigh-Anne, and let's go.
17:49Can I have a vowel, please?
17:51Thank you, Leigh-Anne.
17:52O.
17:52And another.
17:54E.
17:55And a third.
17:56I.
17:57Consonant, please.
17:59C.
18:00Consonant.
18:02N.
18:02And another.
18:04L.
18:05A vowel, please.
18:07A.
18:09A consonant.
18:11C.
18:12A final consonant, please.
18:14A final B.
18:16And start the clock.
18:49I'm going to try an eight.
18:50Go for it.
18:51And Stephen?
18:52Six.
18:53Six.
18:53Now, you don't have that eight,
18:55because you didn't even think of gambling there, right?
18:56So the safe six?
18:57A celiac.
18:58There you go, celiac.
19:00And for you, Leanne?
19:01Bionicle.
19:02How are you spelling it?
19:04B-I-O-N-E-C-L-E at the end.
19:08Yeah.
19:10It is...
19:11It's actually not there with the two I's
19:13and it isn't there without spelling either, Leanne.
19:16It's a really good try.
19:17I'm sorry.
19:18Yeah, I thought I'd take a risk.
19:19There you go.
19:20Not there.
19:21I think it's a good time to have a punt, though, Leanne.
19:23So well done.
19:24Well, I'm going to be continuing with my mean streak,
19:27because celiac, as in celiac disease,
19:29in British English is C-O-E-L-I-A-C.
19:32Without that O at the beginning,
19:34it's the American spelling, which we're not allowed.
19:36So I have to just slap both of them.
19:37So they're both gone.
19:38Yes.
19:39Which means anything counts here, Helen.
19:42Conical.
19:43Conical.
19:44Yes.
19:44So conical will be there, cone-shaped, obviously.
19:47And oceanic is a lovely one as well for seven.
19:50Beautiful.
19:50Yeah.
19:51Right, there you go.
19:51That's what you have,
19:52but Stephen and Leanne falling foul to those nine letters.
19:57So let's give you a bit of respite,
19:58go back to the numbers.
19:59I'll go back to two large and four small, please.
20:02Two from the top,
20:03and then we can get our four little ones coming up,
20:06as ordered again.
20:08And the four smalls are eight, six, eight and ten.
20:11And the big two, 50 and 100 again, all the evens again.
20:15And this time, the target, 717.
20:18717.
20:18717.
20:19717.
20:21817.
20:22917.
20:45717.
20:50All right, Stephen.
20:52Just 7.10.
20:537.10. 7 away. We'll get you five points.
20:56Leanne? 7.12.
20:58Five points away. We'll get you a really big seven points.
21:01So 7.12, Leanne Kennedy.
21:04100, take 10.
21:05100, take 10.
21:08Times 8. 720.
21:10And take the second 8.
21:12And take the second 8. Yep. 7.125 away.
21:14Tricky won this.
21:157.1.7.
21:18I mean, if you add the six there, you get to one away,
21:21but leave it with me.
21:22Right. Let's get a second tea time teaser.
21:25All modes.
21:26All modes.
21:28Went skiing after a pint of 80s lager.
21:31Went skiing after a pint of 80s lager.
21:41MUSIC PLAYS
21:42APPLAUSE
21:50Hello again.
21:51When skiing after a pint of 80s lager,
21:54there were so many memories in this for a certain age group watching.
21:58Slalomed.
22:00Right, 54-37 is the score.
22:04Fairly sobering for our champion, Steve.
22:07And he's still not quite getting away from Leanne yet.
22:10And it's your letters.
22:11Foul, please.
22:12Thank you, Leanne.
22:13I.
22:14And another.
22:15A.
22:17And a third.
22:18O.
22:20A consonant, please.
22:22S.
22:23And a second.
22:26C.
22:27And another.
22:28L.
22:30A vowel.
22:32A.
22:33A consonant.
22:35S.
22:37Uh, final verbal, please.
22:39Another one.
22:40The final I.
22:41Let's play.
22:43MUSIC PLAYS
22:59Time's up, Leanne.
23:08Time's up, Leanne.
23:14Six.
23:14Six.
23:15And for you, Stephen?
23:16Six.
23:16And a six, Leanne.
23:18Quasies.
23:19Yes.
23:19And for you, Stephen?
23:21Slices.
23:21And slices and closes and all sorts.
23:24I think there's a huge word there,
23:25but I have no idea how to spell it.
23:27Isopheles.
23:28Yes.
23:28I know, I was so desperate.
23:29Is it there?
23:30No, only three S's.
23:31No.
23:32Yes.
23:32It's almost spelt out, wasn't it?
23:34But, yeah, so three S's.
23:36We couldn't have that, but we did manage a seven.
23:38Yeah, again, with the drinks.
23:41Iceless.
23:41Yes.
23:42Without ice in a drink.
23:44Right.
23:44Sometimes I'll do that with a soft drink, you know,
23:47for a better value for money.
23:48Exactly.
23:48You do it that way.
23:49Sometimes you put so much ice in, what are you paying for?
23:52I'm not paying for tap water here.
23:54Ridiculous.
23:55Right, 60, 43, then.
23:57More letters.
23:58Stephen?
23:58Can I have a consonant, please?
24:00Thank you, Stephen.
24:01M.
24:01And a vowel.
24:03A.
24:04Consonant.
24:06D.
24:07Vowel.
24:08E.
24:09Consonant.
24:10R.
24:11Vowel.
24:13U.
24:15Consonant.
24:16P.
24:17Consonant.
24:19D.
24:20And a final consonant, please.
24:21And a final R.
24:23And countdown.
24:24We'll see you next time.
24:26We'll see you next time.
24:26We'll see you next time.
24:27We'll see you next time.
24:28We'll see you next time.
24:29We'll see you next time.
24:31We'll see you next time.
24:32We'll see you next time.
24:33We'll see you next time.
24:35We'll see you next time.
24:37We'll see you next time.
24:40We'll see you next time.
24:41We'll see you next time.
24:42We'll see you next time.
24:43We'll see you next time.
24:44We'll see you next time.
24:45We'll see you next time.
24:46We'll see you next time.
24:47We'll see you next time.
24:55That will have to do this. Stephen?
24:57Seven. Leigh-Anne?
24:59Just a six.
25:01Yeah, same here. What's the six?
25:02Dumper.
25:03Stephen?
25:04Parader.
25:05Parader. Somebody who parades, Susie, straight to the computer.
25:10You need two A's.
25:12It is in the dictionary, but you need two A's for parader, I'm afraid.
25:16Look at that, back to 11 points.
25:19Now, was there anything above a six?
25:21We had so many sixes, didn't we?
25:23But yes, a single seven we could rescue.
25:27Eardrum.
25:28Oh, great spot. Eardrum.
25:31Eardrum for seven if you got that at home.
25:35Sixes all round.
25:35Apart from that, we are well poised for a big finish, aren't we?
25:39It's been a good game today.
25:40But first, origins of words of the week, Susie.
25:42Yes.
25:43Well, thank you to Ron Davis from Sheffield,
25:46who has asked the first question of the week.
25:48Why, when a business is in financial trouble and going bankrupt,
25:51do we say it has gone to the wall?
25:54Which is a really good one.
25:56And walls, inevitably, featuring large in our life,
25:59they've given rise to many idioms in English.
26:02So wall itself is from the Latin word wallum,
26:05if you pronounce the V as a W, as they did.
26:09It means a rampart.
26:11So the first walls were clearly defensive in nature.
26:15And to go to the wall is much more recent than the Romans,
26:21but still to do possibly with fighting,
26:24because although it means to fail commercially these days,
26:27it originally meant to give way or to be beaten in battle.
26:30And the idea might be of a fighter who is so kind of up against it,
26:36if you like, that he or she retreats
26:38until they are literally up against the wall.
26:41But many other idioms, as I say,
26:43someone who's off the wall is perhaps a little bit eccentric,
26:46if you like.
26:47That's only recorded from the mid-1960s,
26:49and it's possibly to do with the way that a ball bounces off a wall
26:53at a sort of slightly odd angle, if you like.
26:55And so many more.
26:56The writings on the wall, that one goes back to the Book of Daniel,
27:01when the King of Babylon had his death foretold
27:05by a mysterious hand who wrote on the palace wall at a banquet.
27:08So lots and lots of them.
27:10But to do with bankruptcy, I think it is literally because you are like that,
27:13you are sort of at the end of everything, almost.
27:16And just to finish with bankrot, which is a lovely etymology,
27:19which I've told often, but it's from the Italian banca rotta,
27:22a broken bench, because moneylenders used to trade from benches,
27:27and when they went out of business, they would literally,
27:30or metaphorically, cut their bench in two.
27:33Thank you, Suze.
27:34You're welcome.
27:37And thank you to Ron for the email.
27:40Right, Stephen, your back's against the wall, eh?
27:42Four rounds to go for a champion.
27:4411 points in it.
27:46Leanne, you're choosing these letters.
27:48Vowel, please.
27:49Thank you, Leanne.
27:50E.
27:52And another.
27:53U.
27:54And a third.
27:56O.
27:57Consonant.
27:59K.
28:01A consonant.
28:03Q.
28:05Consonant.
28:06F.
28:07F.
28:08Vowel, please.
28:09A.
28:11And a final consonant.
28:13A final...
28:14Final T.
28:15Maybe.
28:16Oh, sorry.
28:17And I'll take another consonant.
28:20And a final, final consonant.
28:21F.
28:22S.
28:23Good luck.
28:54That'll do is, Leanne.
28:56I'm going to try a six.
28:58Going for a six.
28:58And Stephen?
28:59Six.
29:00Six as well.
29:00Right, Leanne.
29:02Outask.
29:03To outask.
29:04We're going to have to ask Susie about that.
29:06And Stephen?
29:07Quakes.
29:08Quakes.
29:09As in earthquakes.
29:11Yep, those are absolutely fine.
29:12But there's no outask.
29:14Perfectly sensible suggestion, just not in the dictionary.
29:16Not in the dictionary, all right.
29:17So, a seismic quakes gets you a big six points.
29:20Well done.
29:21And for you, Helen, do you spot anything else?
29:23Yes, something nice.
29:25Quotes.
29:26Yes.
29:26Plural.
29:27Quotes and quakes and not much else.
29:30Not much else.
29:31All right, there you go.
29:32Little bit of a cushion, Stephen.
29:33You're picking these last letters.
29:35Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
29:37Thank you, Stephen.
29:37M.
29:38A vowel.
29:40E.
29:41Another vowel.
29:42O.
29:43Consonant.
29:44S.
29:45Vowel.
29:46A.
29:47A consonant, please.
29:48P.
29:49Vowel, please.
29:52E.
29:53Consonant.
29:54W.
29:55A final consonant, please.
29:57And a final.
29:57N.
29:58And last letters.
30:00The end manual.
30:03The end manual.
30:22Time enemyengager.
30:27IAN newialаша.
30:27Think of that.
30:28The end manual.
30:29If you follow the trot that will.
30:30All right, that's time. Stephen. Seven.
30:33Oh, well done, Leanne. Seven.
30:35Well done as well. OK, what have we got? Weapons.
30:37Weapons, Leanne. Air weapons. Yeah, pass it over.
30:42There you go. All guns firing. Anything else?
30:44I'm going to have to go to the oracle for this one. I'm stumped.
30:49Well, stump is quite appropriate, actually, because this is a tree.
30:53Mapanis, trees plural, these are found in regions of southern Africa.
30:57Bit of a countdown favourite. That's there for seven as well.
31:00And a seven as well. OK, it just gets you the same points.
31:03So seven, well done. Really good standard today.
31:06And not over yet.
31:08And you're in control of the final numbers, Leanne.
31:12Are you going to go for it?
31:13No, one large and the rest small, thanks.
31:15Not gambling? No, no.
31:17OK, we need something tricky to keep you in the teapot runnings.
31:21Final numbers of the day.
31:23Five, two, nine, four, seven.
31:27The large and 100.
31:29And you need to reach 662.
31:32Six, six, two.
31:33Last numbers.
31:3610,5-CD,
31:36Ten,
31:36Six, three, six, five, four, five, five, five.
31:43Two, eight, five, six, five.
31:43Two, nine, four, five, five.
31:57Five, six, five, five, five.
31:59Six, six.
32:00Two, three, uh,
32:03four, five, five, six things.
32:046-6-2. Leanne Kennedy.
32:06I think I've got it, but not written down.
32:08Stephen Woods. 6-6-2.
32:10And you have it. So, Leanne, off you go.
32:12100, take 5.
32:1495. Times 7.
32:16Times 7, 665.
32:184 plus 2.
32:20Is 6. Take from the 9.
32:224-3. And take it away.
32:23Perfect. 6-6-2, well done.
32:25Well done, Stephen. Exact same way.
32:29Brilliant.
32:30APPLAUSE
32:31And that seals the deal
32:33for Stephen, but we're not done today, Leanne.
32:36Let's get your finger on the buzzer.
32:37Stephen, let's get your finger on the buzzer.
32:39You know the score by now.
32:41It was almost crucial, but not quite.
32:43Let's reveal this Monday's Countdown Conundrum.
32:46MUSIC PLAYS
33:13Oh, Stephen.
33:14I'll give it a guess. Is it miscusing?
33:18Miscusing? It isn't.
33:19Rest of the time, Leanne.
33:22Yes?
33:23Is it miscuring?
33:24Oh, perfect.
33:26Let's just confirm it.
33:28Oh, great.
33:29APPLAUSE
33:31Look at that.
33:3283 plays 76.
33:34So, you don't go home with a teapot,
33:36but you go home with your head held high.
33:38Thanks for being here.
33:39Appreciate it.
33:40Stephen, that was really tough.
33:42You had a tough baptism, tough today.
33:45It's the making of a champion when this happens.
33:47So, well done to you.
33:47Two wins. We'll see you tomorrow.
33:49Magic.
33:50Helen, what about this?
33:52It's like rolling back the years to 1999, haven't you?
33:55Thank you so much.
33:56We'll see you tomorrow.
33:58See you, Suze.
33:58Yeah, look forward to it.
34:01Favourite tiger?
34:02In our house, it's the tiger who came to tea.
34:05Is that a little nursery rhyme?
34:06No, it's a Judith Kerr book.
34:08A little girl called Sophie and a tiger comes for tea
34:11with her and her mummy in the kitchen.
34:12Nice.
34:13All right, back tomorrow, same time, same place.
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