WORD WHEEL

YOU have ten minutes to find as many words as possible using the letters in the wheel. Each word must use the hub letter and at least three others, and letters may be used only once. You cannot use plurals, foreign words or proper nouns, but verb forms ending in ‘s’ are permitted. There is one nine-letter word in the wheel, for which today’s clue is: Shrub found in untidy hay garden.

MINDBENDER

1. For the past year, Kate and Eoin have been keeping a record of their running habits. The total distance run by Kate is 32% greater than that run by Eoin. If they have run a combined total of 638 miles, how many miles has Kate run? 2. What connects lights, pearls and onions? 3. In which Irish town might you find a RED RAFT? 4. Which is the odd one out: schnitzel with noodles, pigs in blankets, bright copper kettles, whiskers on kittens? 5. Rearrange the letter groups to make three dogs: GRE ESE MAT ING UND PEK IAN DAL YHO.

HOW you rate: 15 words, average; 25 words, good; 35 words, very good; 40 or more, excellent. Solution on Monday.

YESTERDAY’S words: aced, ached, acid, aide, aped, aphid, cade, caped, cede, cedi, cepheid, chad, cheeped, chid, chide, dace, deep, deice, dice, eched, edaphic, hade, haed, head, headpiece, heaped, heed, hide, hied, iced, idea, paced, paid, peached, peched, pieced, pied.

MASTERQUIZ

1. Norman structure Castle Roche is located in which county? 2. Christian Corbet is a Canadian artist working principally in which field? 3. In which type of sporting event is a Derny regularly used? 4. In soccer, who is the new manager of Nottingham Forest? 5. Which Axis Powers leader was rescued from captivity by German paratroopers in the Gran Sasso raid of September 1943? 6. What is a Gallowglass?