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: Pure, clean walkover.

MINDBENDER

How you rate: 15 words, average; 25, good; 35, very good; 40 or more, excellent. Solution tomorrow. Saturday’s words: aery, agentry, airy, anergy, angry, arty, barney, barye, baryte, baying, beaty, beigy, beray, beraying, betray, betraying, binary, brainy, bray, braying, briny, byre, byte, entry, eying, gaiety, gantry, gentry, grainy, gray, grey, gybe, gyrant, gyrate, gyre, nary, nearby, rainy, rangy, raying, retying, tangy, teary, tigery, tiny, tray, trey, trying, tying, tyre, tyring, yang, yare, yarn, yean, year, yearn, yeti. 1. While shopping, Mel picks some clothes from the racks of her favourite shop, then puts two items back. She swaps 20pc of the remaining items for four others. Finally, she adds another third more. If she takes 16 items into the changing room, how many did she pick up to begin with? 2. What connects spiral, compression and greenstick? 3. Which 2018 British Soap Award winner might PULL HAWK ORDER? 4. Odd one out: Wheels Of Fire, Electric Ladyland, Band Of Gypsys, Rainbow Bridge? 5. Which three-letter word completes the following longer words: ---tion, a---, ---tal, tor---t?

SCOTSQUIZ

1. Which Scots whisky giant was born near Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, in 1805?

2. Why is the village of Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, known as ‘God’s Treasure House in Scotland’?

3. Which Scottish king was killed at the Battle of Alnwick?

4. Which Glasgow open space is one of the oldest public parks in Britain?

5. Name the Scottish actor who starred in Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace.

6. What are ‘silver darlings’?

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