e) IDEA: all have rhyming synonyms, but IDEA’s ends in -OUGHT, not -ORT: CASTLE/FORT, DEATH/MORT, HARBOUR/PORT, IDEA/THOUGHT, LITTLE/SHORT, RECREATION/SPORT, TYPE/SORT, WRONG/TORT. c) 17 (the total score of all the tiles - which must be divisible by the number of words - is 187 = 11 × 17) An example would be: BABY, CONTINUES, FEWER, FULLY, GUARDING, HEAVE, IRRIGATION, JOIN, MUSICAL, OXEN, QUIT (blanks for UI), RETALIATED, ROMPED, SOOTHED, SPEAK, WAIVE, ZO. j) Ten Days That Shook the World (John Reed) - Towards the end of September 1917, an alien professor of Sociology visiting Russia came to see me in Petrograd. (Some versions of this book begin with ‘Toward’ rather than ‘Towards’.)

a) Anagrams: AGREES/GREASE, ASPIRE/PRAISE, CHASTE/SACHET, ENLIST/SILENT, ENTRAP/PARENT, LATTER/RATTLE, NEURAL/UNREAL, PALEST/STAPLE, PRIEST/STRIPE,

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Nato phonetics: Charlie BROWN, Golf COURSE, Hotel CALIFORNIA, India RUBBER, KiloGRAM, Papa DOC, Sierra NEVADA, Yankee DOODLE b) All words can be spelled using only the top row of a UK typewriter: FLASH uses only the second row. BABY (for example) fits between OIL and BALL. All the words in the list can be preceded by words beginning C-: in particular CA-, CH-, CO-, CR- and CU-; for each of these digraphs there are 7 words of lengths 3-9 letters, one word of each length.

The ‘centre’ of the maze is the D in the 8 th row, 7 th column. THIS ROUTE IS THE ONE WHICH REACHES THE EN D. d) Associated with a 2-word phrase, both words ending in LL: BAD FEELING/ILL WILL, TARANTINO FILM/KILL BILL, LONDON THOROUGHFARE/PALL MALL, CONFUSED/PELL MELL, MUSTER/ROLL CALL c) 99 (NINETY NINE): all other numbers contain, when written in English, two letters which are consecutive in the alphabet (but not necessarily consecutive in the word(s)).

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c) IRON/FE and LEAD/PB are the only elements where the Scrabble score of the symbol exceeds that of the name. One hundred and thirteen thousand three hundred and twenty-three million, three hundred and seventy-three thousand three hundred and seventy-three’ has 124 letters. b) NO, IT IS A VERY INTERESTING NUMBER; IT IS THE SMALLEST NUMBER EXPRESSIBLE AS A SUM OF CUBES IN TWO DIFFERENT WAYS.

j) First 3 letters of US States, reversed: BEN/NEBRASKA, LAC/CALIFORNIA, LED/DELAWARE, NET/TENNESSEE, NEP/PENNSYLVANIA, NIM/MINNESOTA RAM/MARYLAND, REV/VERMONT, SAW/WASHINGTON, SEW/WEST VIRGINIA c) VAIN. Words are anagrams of names starting A, B, C etc, male/female alternating. VAIN is anagram of IVAN. Can be preceded by a Prime Minister’s name: BLAIR WITCH, BROWN WINDSOR, GLADSTONE BAG, HEATHROW, MAJOR GENERAL, NORTH POLE, SALISBURY PLAIN, WELLINGTON BOOTNine/9 pins: DRAWING pin, FIRING pin, HAIRpin, HATpin, KINGpin, ROLLING pin, SAFETY pin, TAILSpin, TIEpin

Synonym begins TEN: CANOPY/TENT, INCLINE/TEND, LESSEE/TENANT, OCCUPATION/TENURE, PRINCIPLE/TENET, SENSITIVE/TENDER, SHOOT/TENDRIL, SINEW/TENDON, STRAINED/TENSE, STUBBORN/TENACIOUS d) Ewan McGregor - Obi Wan Kenobi - Alec Guinness - George Smiley - Gary Oldman - Commissioner Gordon a) UNDERRUN, KANGAROO, COLLOQUY, MATADOR, OVERDRIVE, ATHLETICS, ELEVEN, LACERATE, PALATINE, POLICEMEN rhyme with ONE, TWO, …, TEN

Terry. These are the first names of the Monty Python Team. Terry is missing, but as there is another Terry, it is also not missing. The archivist has added the letters of the names (A=1, B=2, etc) to each other when there is an AND in the title. So for example U2’s RATTLE and HUM yields R, A, T, B(=T+H), G(=L+U), R(=E+M) Preceded by 2-letter element symbol: AL GORE, AM DRAM, AT LAST, AU PAIR, BE PREPARED, HE MAN , IN LOVE, NO ENTRY