Well, yesterday's 7bm was an interesting one - I came closer than I have in a while, missing by only two. I had acetone but not ACETATE! Doh! I thought I had the "word" when I spotted COTANGENT but that, apparently, was simply my love of maths showing through...
I missed COGNATE completely and I'm wondering whether I must have been sick the day they talked about this word! Not common to me at all. When I saw the word I guessed it must have something to do with cognition but, no, it's something else entirely - go figure!
Now that I've itched my 'b', it's time to congratulate dox on yet another rosette. She was joined there by Binkie (as I type this I'm not sure if Binkie has contributed to this thread but I know I've seen her name on the forum as she used to be known as Binks in a previous time). Well done both of you!
rogue_mother and Jancsika were just one back - commiserations to both of you. Next were auntiemo, dragonman, ozzyjune, Maudland, ozzyjack and yours truly - though the others all got the seed word!
Roddles was a further one back at 30 common words and yelnats was on 29 - still good performances IMHO.
Good luck in today's puzzle everyone, especially you dox - keep the run going...