Round 3042 SAROS Defs

[Tim Lodge]

First of all, apologies again to Dan Widdis for losing his def, or rather for allowing my spreadsheet to ignore it - he gets two dealer points.  Efrem Mallach is the winner, with 4 votes for his Greek dancing area, so gets a double (or is it triple?) back-to-back deal. Debbie Embler, Dave Cunningham, and Mike Shefler scored 3 points each to become the real winners in second place. Mike Shefler and Tony Abell guessed correctly that SAROS is the Babylonian name for the number 3600, leaving me with a D2.

Over to you Efrem - again!

--  Tim L

*** SAROS ***

1.  a horn shaped pastry.             
Submitter: Debbie Embler Votes: 2 & 12 Score: 3  + 0 + 0  = 3
Voted for by: Tim Bourne, Dave Cunningham, Judy Madnick        

 2.  a mischievous prank or antic.             
Submitter: Chris Carson Votes: 0 & 0 Score: 2  + 0 + 0  = 2
Voted for by: Debbie Embler, Tony Abell            

 3.  the ancient Egyptian god of farming.            
Submitter: Tim Bourne Votes: 1 & 8 Score: 2  + 0 + 0  = 2
Voted for by: Mike Shefler, Efrem Mallach            

 4.  a medium-dry sherry similar to Amontillado.           
Submitter: Mike Shefler Votes: 3 & 10 Score: 1  + *2* + 0  = 3
Voted for by: Judy Madnick             

 5.  a purple dye of unknown origin used in ancient Greece.        
Submitter: Dave Cunningham Votes: 1 & 7 Score: 3  + 0 + 0  = 3
Voted for by: Shani Naylor, Dan Widdis, Nancy Shepherdson        

 6.  the 'pitcher' of a pitcher-plant [fr. generic name Sarracenia]        
Submitter: Johnny Barrs Votes: 0 & 0 Score: 2  + 0 + 0  = 2
Voted for by: Steve Dixon, Ryan McGill            

 7.  an area for ceremonial dances outside an ancient Greek temple.       
Submitter: Efrem Mallach Votes: 3 & 9 Score: 4  + 0 + 0  = 4
Voted for by: Dave Cunningham, Steve Dixon, Shani Naylor, Nancy Shepherdson   

 8.  a common mold, usually rust-colored, with microscopic airborne spores.    
Submitter: Steve Dixon Votes: 6 & 7 Score: 2  + 0 + 0  = 2
Voted for by: Tim Bourne, Dan Widdis            

 9.  [Lit] A rhetorical shift or dramatic change in thought and/or emotion.      
Submitter: Shani Naylor Votes: 5 & 7 Score: 2  + 0 + 0  = 2
Voted for by: Efrem Mallach, Ryan McGill            

10.  _Ancient History_ The Babylonian name for the number 3600, and hence for a period of 3600 years.
Submitter:  OED  Votes: 0 & 0 Score: 2  + 0 + 0  = 2
Voted for by: Mike Shefler, Tony Abell            

12.  in Hellenism, a supplicatory method which aims to position the supplicant as submissive to and receptive toward the will of their deity, most commonly associated with Athena, Gaia, Hera, Hestia, and Phanes, as well as other deities associated with fertility, domesticity, guidance, and wisdom
Submitter: Ryan McGill Votes: 6 & 9 Score: 1  + 0 + 0  = 1
Voted for by: Nobody              

13.  a card game in which the players bet on the appearance of a particular rank when two cards are taken from the top of a dealer's pack. If the player's rank appears first, the bet is lost; if it appears second, the bet is won; and if it doesn't appear, the player has the option of changing the wager before the next hand.
Submitter: Judy Madnick Votes: 1 & 4 Score: 0  + 0 + 0  = 0
Voted for by: Debbie Embler             

Lost Def: Dan Widdis Votes: 5 & 8 + 2DP Score: 0  + 0 + 2  = 2
No Def: Nancy Shepherdson Votes: 5 & 7 Score: 0  + 0 + 0  = 0
No Def: Tony Abell Votes: 2 & 10 Score: 0  + *2* + 0  = 2

	Def	Vote 1	Vote 2	Tot Votes	Guess	DP	Score
Efrem Mallach	7	3	9	4	0	0	4
Debbie Embler	1	2	12	3	0	0	3
Mike Shefler	4	3	10	1	2	0	3	*
Dave Cunningham	5	1	7	3	0	0	3
Chris Carson	2	0	0	2	0	0	2
Tim Bourne	3	1	8	2	0	0	2
Johnny Barrs	6	0	0	2	0	0	2
Steve Dixon	8	6	7	2	0	0	2
Shani Naylor	9	5	7	2	0	0	2
OED	10	-	-	2	0	0	2
Dan Widdis	Lost Def	5	8	0	0	2	2
Tony Abell	No Def	2	10	0	2	0	2	*
Ryan McGill	12	6	9	1	0	0	1
Judy Madnick	13	1	4	0	0	0	0
Nancy Shepherdson	No Def	5	7	0	0	0	0

 

[Efrem G Mallach]

I must have been truly evil in a previous incarnation to deserve this!

Seriously, I'm about to leave for an all-day training program on some software I'll probably never need to know about. (I actually signed up for this voluntarily because I want to spend some time with the other participants.) If there's time to send out a new word - I don't have one lined up, though I do have a list of candidates - I'll send it out during the program. Hopefully there will be, at least during the lunch break. If not, then this evening in the eastern U.S.

Also, I haven't yet done anything about my email situation. That will now have to wait until after this round. Sorry!

Efrem

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[Stephen Dixon]

When you're good you're good.

Get to it as you can. Nobody will suffer a little delay, I think.

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