I can now disclose that the first set of link words to be chosen by newly crowned burgess3334 (aka Alan) are:
Rough HOUSE Wind JAMMER Shake DOWN Bud ABBOT(T)
These Links were quite sharp and scoring was not exactly prolific! For the first time, the "Two-minute Rule" was not required and no-one scored more than two points!
Once again, the very quick responders failed to score, although they came close to the chosen theme on occasion. It wasn't until Entrant #9 when rogerr struck first with the clever BUD ABBOT and seconds later came jan1959 to pick up bonus points for ROUGH HOUSE. These two are never far apart!
Next to fall was WIND JAMMER at 09.07 to Dinkypuzzled, but the last to fall was SHAKE DOWN at 9.34, when Jules100 came in as Entrant #21. All these four scored two points and only one other person scored two points and that was gen2 for WIND JAMMMER and SHAKE DOWN. For this double hit, I declare gen2 "Hot Shot" of the week!