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1. On Monday afternoon Leah added 65 sweets to her tin. The next day Ali took out 40% of the tin’s contents in the morning, and a further 23 sweets in the afternoon. During the rest of the week Leah and Ali removed 50% of the remaining sweets, adding thirtynine sweets on Friday, leaving them with eighty-six sweets in the tin. How many sweets had been in Leah’s tin on Monday morning? 2. What connects chat, fish and ground? 3. Which 2018 British Soap Award winner may see ANIMAL DINE? 4. Which is the odd one out: nautilus, sea snail, octopus, squid? 5. Rearrange the letter groups to make three places in Buckinghamshire: LEM WAD URY ESB AYL ERE DON HAZ DES.

1 One hundred and thirty sweets. 2 They all form new words with prefix stone - (stonechat, stonefish, stoneground). 3 Ian Midlane. 4 Sea snail, a gastropod; the others are cephalopods. 5 Aylesbury, Hazlemere, Waddesdon.