Fourteen rosettes out of three hundred and fifty odd players made for a challenging puzzle and our rosetteers, dragonman, Roddles and doxydaisy, rose to that challenge with all fifty two common words found!!! 👏👏👏
No rosettenears but ozzyjune, unlike her other half who is, apparently, 180cm, was two short… 😉😉😉
Avoiding that indignity was rogue_mother on forty nine whilst vizal and Maudland were one further back on forty eight…
I was next one forty three, nine off the pace, and, had I been a fun-guy, I might have found MOREL but I was too into drinking MERLOT from a STEMLESS glass to notice that on the TREELESS plain some people were trying to RESETTLE after winning the LOTTO. They will also need to RETOOL the organ they brought with them as its TREMELO is the LOOSEST I have ever heard… (My impetus to get a rosette is produced by
not having to go through that kind of thing…)
Finding the answer to life, the universe and everything were yelnats and Jancsika while auntiemo was a further two behind them on forty…
RL and blackrockrose came in on thirty six commons, sixteen off the pace which they probably don’t think of as sweet…
After finding the seed word alone, ozzyjack decided to cut and run…
Mavenhood required eighty six words which rogue_mother managed with aplomb while dragonman just scraped home with the required total…
I'm sorry that my original post neglected to mention that 2dognight was a non-starter - I notice that Carol is active in other puzzles so, hopefully, we see her return soon...