Elimination

Each of the clues eliminates two words from the list of 37. Find the words that match the clues, cross them off the list and you’ll be left with one word. You can confirm the accuracy of your answer next week.

(a) Community covered by beds? (b) Two suggesting wild

(c) A short caper!

(d) Two making swinish fare

(e) Portable liquor?

(f) Two linked with storm

(g) Latest wear? No, lateish!

(h) Two gems

(i) Astronomical figure!

(j) Two synonyms

(k) Telephone cipher?

(l) Two anagrams

(m) Rate risking bodily harm

(n) Two words with half

(o) Senile youth?

(p) Two producing draw

(q) A volume of places!

(r) Two with basket (a) 14-37 (b) 5-21 (c) 17-33 (d) 25-32 (e) 31-15 (f) 4-26 (g) 16-22 (h) 8-20 (i) 34-3

(j) 9-35 (k) 23-7 (l) 19-29 (m) 36-10 (n) 13-27 (o) 2-28 (p) 11-18 (q) 12-1 (r) 6-30

1. Ale 2. Cat 3. Mate 4. Will 5. Book 6. City 7. Body 8. Sand 9. Opal 10. Code 11. Land 12. Pigs 13. Waltz 14. Dress 15. Speed 16. Baked 17. Chair 18. Light 19. Stale

20. Candle

21. Rifles

22. Garden

23. Minute

24. Ground

25. Lanced

26. Second

27. Flowers 28. Address 29. Evening 30. Hearted 31. Lanterns 32. Heavenly 33. Shopping 34. Dialling 35. Breakneck 36. Childhood 37. Carbuncle