Elimination

HOW TO PLAY

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) Escalator?

(b) Two going with office

(c) Sailing below the route? (d) Two suggesting wedding (e) Left, emptied?

(f) Two writers

(g) Get less, and end

(h) Two linked with blue

(i) Newsgirl’s wear?

(j) Two synonyms

(k) Meal in metal

(l) Two anagrams

(m) Beaten for eaters!

(n) Two for a monarch

(o) Aware of form?

(p) Two words with high

(q) Old Eastern boss’s fruit? (r) Two with horse

1. Bow 2. Die 3. Orb 4. Way 5. Out 6. Moon 7. Mean 8. Seas 9. Cart

10. Away 11. Food 12. Gong 13. Under 14. White 15. Hardy 16. Print 17. Class 18. Dress 19. Tinned

20. Dinner

21. Flight

22. Austen

23. Orange 24. Powered 25. Cleared 26. Serfdom 27. Fingers 28. Foreign 29. Bottles

30. Average 31. Deforms 32. Sceptre 33. Society 34. Mandarin 35. Chestnut 36. Breakfast 37. Conscious