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1. At a shooting range, the target has three areas; the blue is worth two points, red is worth three and gold is worth five. After her round, Emily had a score of 56, having landed twice as many shots in the red area as in the blue and having hit gold twice as many times as she hit red. How many times had Emily hit the gold area? 2. What connects alley, crease and green? 3. Which London theatre may reveal OCEAN WORLD? 4. Which is the odd one out: Bedroom Farce, Table Manners, Round And Round The Garden, Living Together? 5. Which three-letter word completes the following longer words: g---, p---l, th---, b---n? HOW you rate: eight words, average; 12, good; 16, very good; 18 or more, excellent. Solution tomorrow. SATURDAY’S words: felwort, flew, flow, flower, flowerpot, fowl, frow, lower, owlet, plew, power, prow, prowl, reflow, rowel, towel, tower, towrope, trowel, twerp, weft, welt, wept, wert, wetproof, wolf, wolfer, wooer, woof, woofer, wool, wore, wort, wrote.

1 Eight times. 2 They may all follow bowling. 3 Noel Coward. 4 Bedroom Farce; the other Alan Ayckbourn plays form his Norman Conquests. 5 Row. Grow, prowl, throw, brown.