WHICH WORD?

NO. 1609

1 ASCIDIAN (a) A hermit (b) A sea-squirt (c) A roundworm 2 BANAL (a) Destructive (b) Commonplace (c) Expelling 3 CHELIFORM (a) Nipper-like (b) Requiring chewing (c) Lacking a firm chin 4 DENDRITIC (a) Containing ten (b) Compacted together (c) Of a branching form 5 ENDOGENOUS (a) Peculiar to a locality (b) Originating within (c) Having no end 6 FICHU (a) A kind of scarf (b) The fig tree (c) A fringed border 7 GAUCHE (a) Clumsy (b) Showy (c) Gigantic 8 HAPTIC (a) Of the sense of touch (b) Incomplete (c) Pleasurable 9 IMPLACABLE (a) Not easily excited (b) Incapable of emotion (c) Not to be appeased 10 JAMBEAU (a) Armour for the leg (b) The side of a doorway (c) A spiced dish 11 LENITIVE (a) Merciful (b) Relating to the lion (c) Softening 12 MERCURIAL (a) Sprightly (b) Engaged in trade (c) Of textile fabrics 13 NOETIC (a) Harmful (b) Relating to the mind (c) Shining at night 14 OVERT (a) Open to view (b) Egg-shaped (c) Relating to sheep 15 PELLUCID (a) Of the sea or ocean (b) Allowing passage of light (c) Graduated in degrees 16 REBOANT (a) Resounding loudly (b) Opposing (c) Refuting by evidence 17 SISKIN (a) A fibre used in ropemaking (b) An Ancient Egyptian instrument (c) A small bird 18 TISANE (a) A herbal tea (b) A soft gauze-like paper (c) Crude native borax 19 UMIAK (a) The boss at a shield’s centre (b) An open Eskimo boat (c) A satellite of Uranus 20 VENTRAL (a) Swelling out (b) Giving utterance to (c) Abdominal