Autechre's Exai
Apologies for the "interesting development" promised last week not yet seeing the light of day. There has been a slight delay but all is expected to be complete tomorrow. However, a separate interesting development occurred in the past week: Autechre's forthcoming record Exai has been released early in digital format. It is a two-hour long behemoth of a release so will take some time to fully process, but first impressions indicate that this could be Sean and Rob's magnum opus.

In the meantime, while all this juicy music is being processed, let us turn our attention to Countdown. Today's game saw Tom Rowell (Series 63 finalist) and Jonathan Rawlinson (Series 66 runner-up) competing for a place in the quarter-finals of this 68th Series. As is my wont on a Monday I played along and here give you my scorecard followed by the usual word game rules and round-up of last week's entry from our Tearose, a remarkable and inspiring piece on overcoming fear and delighting in ones old adversaries.

Rnd Selection Declaration Score
1 tdilsoeao toiled 6
2 enacisdeo ceased1 12
3 kzleaprog leap 16
4 irelisoph polisher 24
5 5 4 4 2 1 2 → 477 — 24
TTT drublose boulders2  
6 edofuwtij feud 28
7 eisrgasyu gassier 35
8 anipetlti paint 40
9 dnuomrpan random 46
10 50 3 2 8 9 3 → 876 876
50 × 9 × 2 − 8 × 3		 56
TTT spicevat captives3  
11 brgiitust butts 61
12 elorawedx relaxed 68
13 oncuasrog croons 74
14 25 100 75 50 5 7 → 808 810
100 × 7 + 75 + 25 + 50 ÷ 5		 81
15 slapheadt (asphalted) 81

1 Possible nine: OCEANSIDE
2 Solved by Rosie
3 Solved by Rosie

Game

Words: toiled ceased leap polisher feud gassier paint random butts relaxed croons
Rules: Comment or write an article on your own blog, utilising all of the words
Hints: If you blog here on BCUK, use the trackback-URL when publishing your entry and a snippet of your entry will then appear here as a comment

Round-up of last week's entry

'Overcoming Ornithophobia' by Tearose
'The Model Plane' by LucyMGreenfield