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) Sweet for punishment?

(b) Two linked with table

(c) The same relations!

(d) Two associated with pet

(e) Polite butler, perhaps?

(f) Two going with fish

(g) Sane breaks?

(h) Two synonyms

(i) Royal catastrophe?

(j) Two anagrams

(k) Hit high?

(l) Two words with sight

(m) Victorian washing gadget? (n) Two with gun

(o) A current presser

(p) Two making pool part

(q) Gets point down!

(r) Two suggesting dog

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION The remaining word is “Stilts ”

(a) 22-6 (b) 15-24 (c) 36-17 (d) 9-26 (e) 1-27 (f) 13-35 (g) 20-7 (h) 8-33 (i) 16-34 (j) 21-29 (k) 31-12 (l) 14-37 (m) 19-2 (n) 4-23 (o) 32-11 (p) 10-3 (q) 28-5 (r) 18-30

1. Hot 2. End 3. Air 4. Name 5. Leap 6. Flat 7. Send 8. Cane 9. Seer

10. Turn

11. Iron

12. Twins 13. Civil

14. Lucid 15. Court 16. Sugar 17. Short 18. Sword 19. Seldom

20. Spring

21. Silver

22. Cotton

23. Flying

24. Brides

25. Models

26. Machine 27. Shallow 28. Manners 29. Bathing 30. Biscuits 31. Servants 32. Disaster 33. Electric 34. Aversion 35. Intervals 36. Identical 37. Swallower