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

MINDBENDER

1. The difference between the cubes of two consecutive odd numbers is 386. What are the numbers? 2. What connects raven, potato and crocodile? 3. Which person born on the Isle of Wight may NOT SHELTER YOLK? 4. Which is the odd one out: Wilberforce, Theodore, Larry, Humphrey? 5. Starting with the letter ‘i’, add a letter and shuffle to make a new word each time until you reach FLAMINGO. which today’s clue is: Completed each power supply around the court. How you rate: 15 words, average; 25, good; 35, very good; 40 or more, excellent. Solution tomorrow. Yesterday’s words: ahull, balun, bhuna, bull, bunch, caul, chub, club, cull, culpa, haul, hubcap, hula, hull, launch, lunch, nucha, null, paunch, pula, pull, punch, ulna, uncap. punchball,

SCOTS QUIZ

1. According to a psychiatric study, Robert Burns may have had what condition? 2. Grant Bradburn is the head coach of which national team? 3. Which 19th century prime minister was the son of a Leith merchant? 4. What part of Scotland is known in Gaelic as Arcaibh? 5. The sitcom Still Game is a spin-off from what Scots TV comedy show? 6. Which poet and essayist was know as the Ettrick Shepherd? Answers on opposite page