WORD BUILDER

Using all nine letters provided, can you answer these clues? Every answer must include the central letter. Which word uses all nine letters?

5 letters

Be a candidate

Despised

Glass fragment

Parts of a clock

Revises (proofs)

6 letters

Groove of a screw

Leave isolated

Salad item

Smoothing tool

Washed off soap

7 letters Alternatively

Practised

Sacred, hallowed

Shiftier

Small oily fish

8 letters

Most convenient

Most robust

Percolated, sieved